The Pros And Cons Of The Constitution

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ivan the Terrible (Ivan the fourth.) All these men were tyrants, I wonder how the Constitution prevents us from tyrants or tyranny. The Constitution was written in Philadelphia along with the declaration of independence, it was written along the time of May 25,1787 to September 17 of 1787. The Constitution states four safeguards written to prevent tyranny. Federalism(a system that the central government has a powers and the smaller regional governments have power), Separation of Powers(powers that are split into three different systems to keep each other from gaining too much power), Checks and Balances(A political system in which each branch can limit power to the other), and Large and Small state compromise(also known as the great compromise, it said that just because some states were smaller doesn't mean they didn't get to have just as much power as the larger states. Those were the reasons why so far we do not have major tyranny. “Federalism, within the United States system is the balancing of power between a Federal Government and State Governments.” Within this system the federal government is superior to the State Governments. For
An example would be they argued about how many representatives each state should be allowed. The larger states favored the Virginia Plan. The Virginia plan was that each stated would have a different number of representatives based on how many people lived in the state. The smaller states wanted the New Jersey plan which was that the number of representative would be equal no matter what the population was. A man born in Connecticut by the name of Roger Sherman had an idea of a two house legislature that meant that a senate and the House of representatives. They would have an equal amount of representatives from each state, this two house legislature was know as the Great