Human nature is inherently good; however, when polluted with power, it becomes fundamentally corrupt. This is made extremely evident by the separate branches of the government, dividing to ensure that one doesn't have too much power over the other. A second example of human nature is apparent in the creation of the Constitution, which originally seemed to empower the Senate, above all. Finally, people in higher power seem to only care about their gains and seem to care less about their lasting impact. To begin, James Madison or Alexander Hamilton said in his essay titled Federalist Paper 51, “It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government” (1). This generally goes over how checks