在设计美国宪法的时候，开国元勋们的目标不是确保建设和谐的政府，而是利用完整的制衡体系约束政权，增加权力的行使难度。
In designing the US Constitution, the founders’ goal was not to ensure harmonious government, but to constrain political power with a system of checks and balances that made it difficult to exercise.