Scott Williams: Checks and balances on full display

Recently, while guiding a visitor around Mount Vernon, George Washington’s superb home and museum in Virginia, one felt different from all previous visits.Gazing upon George and Martha’s modest tomb, you could feel the words and sentiment of our Founding Father in the fall wind off the Potomac, reassuring the republic of its roots in these turbulent political times.Washington and his Constitution-crafting colleagues had one fear, unchecked power. They had been subjected to the hand o