In his paper, Kesler refers to Wilson’s argument that government should not be viewed in the 18th
century conception of the framers as a Newtonian system in which the
desire for power in each part of government could be kept in check by
the same desire for power in other parts of government (much as planets
are kept in their respective orbits by the force of gravity) but rather
that government should be viewed as an organism that, in the Darwinian
sense, adapts and evolves, and whose parts need to fit together in one
coordinated piece rather than as competing components. Kesler argues
against the Wilsonian approach positing, in the final paragraphs of his
article, that a good government, as embodied in the Constitutional
order, must “…secure private rights and the public good, rather than
simply obeying the majority’s will” (Kesler, 2016).
