[T]here is, in the nature of sovereign power, an impatience of control, that disposes those who are invested with the exercise of it, to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations. ... Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 15, 1787
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