美国的建国之父们同样认为不受任何限制的权力，即使在政治上合理合法，同样也充满了危险，也正基于这样的考虑，他们才建立了内部分权的宪法制度，以便对领导人进行牵制。
America’s founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which is why they created a constitutional system of internally separated powers to limit the executive.