How The Framers Prevented Tyranny
By: Ryan Ball
Federalism
Federalism is the separation of powers within the Federal and State governments. The federal government and state governments can check each other. The state governments take care of more state based problems such as establishing and maintaining schools. The federal government take care or more nation-wide problems such as regulating foreign trade.
Separation of power
Separation of powers is the how to constitution separates power within the federal government. The federal government is broken up into three branches, executive, legislative, and judicial. The three branches each do there own power which helps guard from tyranny. The legislative branch makes the law, the executive branch enforces the law, and the judicial branch interprets the law.
Checks and Balances
Legislative
They can check the executive branch because they can impeach the president. They can check the judicial branch because they can remove judges from their office.
Executive
They can check the judicial branch because the president nominates judges. They can check the legislative branch because the president can veto congressional legislation.
Judicial
They can check the executive branch because they can say that the presidents acts are unconstitutional. They can check the legislative branch because they can declare laws unconstitutional.
Checks and balances help guard against tyranny because the three branches can all check each other in many different ways.
Big states vs small states
To help prevent tyranny, the framers tried there best to not let big states over power small states. To follow through with this, the framers decided that no matter how big of state, they would each get 2 representatives in senate. This makes sure that big states can't "bully" the small states because they get equal representation in senate.
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