CONSTITUTION AND FEDERALIST

"Notes on the State of Virginia," p. 195. "All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Let those who doubt it, turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us, that they are chosen by ourselves. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
For this reason, that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.

This quote from the federalist 57  talks about how one person must not hold all the power.the founding fathers were very much against authoritarian or dictatorship rule.they set up these different institutions to moderate power and effect the rule of law.they wanted a system based on principles of equality that makes no one above the law.in the end its the people who have the final check on both legislative and executive branch when they vote to elect their representatives .through those selections,they also influence the potential makeup of the judiciary branch

I like this quote because the checks and balance as name suggests makes limits the powers of each branch whiles empowering them of different roles.People in power will most likely not abuse its power or turn into a dictatorship due to variance in branches.This is an important  decision to give specific powers to each branch and to ensure no one branch is too powerful than the other or control too much power.the branches must work together for the prosperity of the nation.its up to us as a generation to see that the integrity of the Constitution structure for a free society is maintained by exercising our rights to vote.this helps preserve the system of checks and balances to essential limit and balance the government