Constitution Guard Against Tyranny

The constitution guarded against tyranny in several ways. Some of those ways were federalism, checks and balances, large states verses small states and division and separation of power. Here is how it all got started. 55 white males gathered in Philadelphia to form the document that keeps our country on the map. The document, is The Unites States Constitution of Independence. The constitution was written and formed in May of the year1787. The constitution has seven articles. Many people do not realize that every day the constitution plays a really big part in their life. Our constitution keeps America from fighting in unnecessary wars. That is called tyranny. In this essay you will discover how the constitution guards against tyranny. Federalism
is the perfect way of keeping and making peace. Federalism keeps tyranny out of the picture. During the forming of the constitution, there was a very smart man with the name of JAmes Madison. James Madison had his own ideas of a government. His government had two pieces combined together to make a compound. One of them two pieces was state government. this meant that the state came up with its own laws. The other piece was central or national government. this meant that this government made sure the country was following it federal laws so that there was no tyranny. Madison's government was called federalism. (DOC A) All in all federalism was and still is a perfect way of making sure no one person was or is over powered to keep tyranny out of the picture. How many times have you thought about how one person has all the power? Once or twice? Here is an example. A mom and her kids. The mom always gets the say in everything. Then when the kids try to do something here's what she says, "No! You can do that!" Even if she just did that a minute ago. that mom is causing unnecessary fighting. She's causing tyranny to occur. Why does this happen? This happens because the power isn't separated. In order for everything to be equal the powers of the people need to be Separated. Yes we do have the president but his power is shared with the supreme court justice. Even the governments power is separated. The executive branch enforces laws, the legislative branch makes laws, and the judicial branch tells if the law has been broken. (DOC B) Together federalism and the separation of powers make sure that one person cant do whatever they ant and become to powerful. Many people think that the checks and balances system deals with money. It doesn't.There are three branches of government. The branches are legislative, executive and judicial.If the House of Representatives feels that the president is too overpowered they can impeach or make the president resign. The president keeps the Judicial branch in check. The president can appoint justices.The Supreme Court can check the senate by making sure no laws are broken.The framers gave each branch the power to keep each other in check without causing tyranny. (DOC C) See, the checks and balances system is pretty simple free all! Lastly, we have large states verses the small states. Rhode Island did not show up to the meeting in Philadelphia because they felt that the other states weren't giving them enough power even though they had a representative. Delaware had only one representative and showed up because they had ore power. The Lara get states had more representatives because they had a larger population. This made the small states mad. However, in the senate all of the states had equal power. (DOC D) Today even though the states aren't equal america is still an amazing country. Did you discover something? I hope so. Think about how the constitution takes a big part in your life. The constitution really does keep everyone in check and out of tyranny.