The Constitution doesn’t enforce itself. It never did and never will.
Even James Madison, the so-called father of the Constitution – knew this. in Federalist 48 he wrote that
a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.
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