NEED HELP ASAP TAKING THE TEST NOW 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

To limit the concentration of power identified by Madison in this passage, the framers of the Constitution

a) included a Bill of Rights outlining specific rights held by the people.
B) created a federal system of government with separate national and state governments.
C) divided the powers of government among distinct branches, each with limited oversight over the others.
D) denied the national government the right to exercise any power not explicitly identified in the Constitution.