§ Message № checks-and-balances · Courts Lens
Checks and Balances.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Federalist No. 51, James Madison · 1788
Madison's machine.
In Federalist No. 51, Madison explains the design: give each branch the means to resist the others, so ambition counteracts ambition. Checks and balances is not a slogan, it is the engineering diagram of the federal government.
Why the mechanism is the message.
Quorum's Courts lens is about how power is structured. This design names the structure itself, the mutual restraint that keeps any one branch from running the table.
How we set it.
Fraunces, with "and" lifted into the italic, the small hinge that holds the two halves in tension. The setting is balanced left to right, the composition echoing the idea.
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