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“The [collection] of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be [called] the very definition of tyranny. . . .

. . . it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the [protection] of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.”

—James Madison, The Federalist Paper No. 47 (1788)



James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and one of the nation’s Founding Fathers.

Which Enlightenment thinker most likely influenced the ideas presented in this quotation by Madison?

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The ideas presented in James Madison's quotation were influenced by the Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu, who proposed the idea that the powers of government should be separated and balanced among different branches to prevent tyranny. This idea is known as the separation of powers, and it is an important principle in modern democratic systems.