Read the following excerpt from the Federalist Papers No. 51 and explain, in your own words, what the author is trying to say. W
hat area of government is it addressing, and how was it put into practice? Use details to support your response. "In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others."