<P> The paper begins by asserting that "power is of an encroaching nature", i.e. those with power will attempt to control everything they can . It then asks how this tendency can be stopped, in order to preserve the "separate and distinct" quality of the branches of government . It then makes the claim that merely defining the boundaries of the branches is an insufficient safeguard . It singles out the legislative branch as being particularly successful in taking over power . </P> <P> As an aside from the main argument, the paper notes that the danger of the legislative branch taking over has not been thought about by the "founders of our republics", i.e. the people who wrote the thirteen state constitutions . </P> <P> The paper offers a number of reasons why legislative over-reaching is more likely in a "representative republic", as distinct from other types of government . These reasons include the claim that the legislature is "sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions" and that its powers are both "more extensive, and less susceptible of precise limits". </P> <P> Then two examples of legislative over-reaching are given: Virginia and Pennsylvania . </P>

Which of the following was one of the principle authors of the federalist papers