text:  To connect the ambition of the individual to the responsibilities of the place or the office, if you will. So the legislature, the executive, the judiciary. We're going to make them fight with each other and compete. But by competing, they're going to all focus their attentions on preserving their power. And preserving their power means their constitutional power, which means upholding the rule of law. And so the separation of powers theory comes into being.