"The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry."
"First. In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner"
Invoking the 14th Amendment to address the debt ceiling would circumvent the Constitution's designed separation of powers and upset the system of checks and balances. Political frustration has driven calls for unilateral executive action, often led by commentators and non-expert advocates, and legal arguments are frequently misrepresented. The Constitution establishes distinct Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches to prevent accumulation of power. Federalist principles emphasize distributing offices so each branch checks the others and private interest protects public rights. Concentrating legislative, executive, and judicial powers in one branch threatens liberty and risks tyrannical usurpation.
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