Which change to the Constitution would most directly undermine the argument made by Madison in this
passage?
Refer to the passage.
But the great security against a gradual concentration of
the several powers in the same department, consists in
giving to those who administer each department the
necessary constitutional means and personal motives to
resist encroachments of the others. The provision for
defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made
commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be
made to counteract ambition.
-James Madison, Federalist, no. 51
allowing the president to serve more than two full
terms
granting the president a line-item veto over
congressional appropriations
requiring the federal government to balance the
federal budget each year
giving the states the power to amend the Constitution
without federal approval