How The Constitution Protects Against Tyranny

What if the states could ignore any federal law they didn’t like, this could be a huge problem because then the states could do whatever they wanted because they would have no laws or morals. The Constitution was brought up when a man named Daniel Shays began rioting because of the faulty government. The framers of the Constitution saw the actions of Daniel Shays and wanted to create a fair and non tyrannical government that could hold a nation together. Now the question is how did the Constitution prevent tyranny, I will answer this question by analyzing three documents and gather information to show how the Constitution guarded against tyranny.

Federalism is one of the ways the constitution protects against tyranny and it is defined as the division of power into the national level and the state level. Federalism uses the 10th amendment to give the states any powers that aren't specifically stated as expressed powers letting the states have some power as well as giving the central government power giving the two balance. Federalism guards against tyranny by separating national level and state level by giving them different powers and making it so one cannot overpower the other.
Stated by James Madison “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny”. This quote means that these three powers should be separated or it could be considered tyrannical, and that is exactly what the constitution did. Separation of powers guards against tyranny by dividing the power of one central government into three branches of government separates the power to stop a figure from becoming too