He further recommended an independent judiciary and legislature, with no mixture of the executive and legislature (as, for example, is the case in Britain, with members of Parliament becoming cabinet members). Moreover, he applauded having more than one legislative body, in order to hamper the passage of laws in the heat of the moment.22 As he put it in a letter at about the same time, “Human Passions are all unlimited and insatiable.”23 He also advocated having a strong executive with the power to constrain the other two branches of government.
John Adams.
