The endless battle against tyranny
The constitution will protect you from that nasty tyranny.
Seperation of powers
- The big brainer James Madison came up with this Fabulous idea. He thought that since the power should be shared, there should be 3 types of branches that have equal power. One of the branches is the judicial branch which explains the laws, then comes the executive branch which enforces the laws and then comes the Legislative branch which makes the laws, or thinks of the laws.
How this helps guard against tyranny?
The brilliant thinker James Madison and the other represantatives thought that if 1 person had too much power than he could practically make himself like God so they wanted prevent that from happening and seperated the power
Checks and balances
How this helps guard against tyranny?
Since each branch has a balanced amount of power
than one branch cannot take over the other 3 branches.
Fedaralism
-The state government issue licenses, conduct elections, establish local governments, etc.
- Both types of government share powers such as collect taxes, establish courts, etc.
-The federal government is seprated into 3 branches, legislative, judicial, executive
How this helps guard against tyranny?
This helps guard against tyranny so that one type of government does not have all the power.
Big States vs Small States
-Many of the big states had more represantatives because they had more population, 1 represantative was determined by every 30,000 people.
-This is also known as the great compromise
How this helps guard aganist tyranny?
The great compromise helped guard agiant tyranny so that big states did not take control of the small states.