James Madison believed that constitutional government was a matter of balance. As he put it: “You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

Today, few people worry about government’s ability to control the governed. But the politicization of government workers, especially at the state and local level, has made it increasingly difficult for the government to control itself.

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