Which change to the Constitution would most directly undermine the argument made by Madison in this
passage?
Refer to the passage.
But the great security against a gradual concentration
of the several powers in the same department, consists
in giving to those who administer each department the
necessary constitutional means and personal motives
to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for
defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made
commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must
be made to counteract ambition.
-James Madison, Federalist, no. 51
O allowing the president to serve more than two full
terms
O granting the president a line-item veto over
congressional appropriations
O requiring the federal government to balance the
federal budget each year
O giving the states the power to amend the
Constitution without federal approval