Our Founding Fathers would be thoroughly disillusioned by how the form of government they envisioned has been altered and abused. The Founders thought they were creating a governing structure radically different from the British Monarchy the colonists had escaped from. The Declaration of Independence codified their feelings, and the three separate branches of government they created had checks and balances to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful. As a further attempt to prevent the development of a sovereignty, the legislative and executive branches of government were elected by the populace and had fixed terms in office. Thomas Jefferson expressed it this way: "A government by representatives elected by the people at short periods was our object, and our maxim was, where annual election ends, tyranny begins ". It was expected that citizens would donate a few years of their lives to public service, and then return to the private sector.

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