[editor-surveyor]

"My first thought is that I’ve never heard of anyone with power willing to support something that might restrain that power."

Congratulations! You've just passed Politics 101.

[uptoolate]

I said my “first thought”.
My second thought is this - an example of a True Leader:

Philippians 2:5-8

5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

So based on this example, it can be done. But it has been quite a while since we’ve had a humble servant in Congress following Christ’ example. Maybe we cast our votes with the wrong presuppositions and intentions?