About “These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other”
Federalist No. 48 is an essay written by James Madison, part of the Federalist Papers. It was published on February 1, 1788, in The New York Packet under the pseudonym Publius. This essay follows Federalist No. 47, in which Madison discussed the separation of powers. In No. 48, he argues that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government should not be completely separated. Instead, each branch should have some constitutional control over the others. The title of the essay is "These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)