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Causes Of Tyranny In America

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Tyranny in America

Have you ever wondered why we have a Constitution or what would happen without it? Before the Constitution, we had the Articles of Confederation as our first federal document we lived by. We had to get the Constitution because the Articles of Confederation was too weak and made it so tyranny was possible. Tyranny is “The accumulation of all powers…in the same hands, weather of one, a few, or many (is) the very definition of tyranny.” Written by James Madison. Two of the problems with the Articles of Confederations that there was no Chief Executive, and there was no court system. For these reasons, the thirteen colonies decide that we needed something stronger, to replace the Articles of Confederation. Twelve of the thirteen representatives gathered in Philadelphia in the year 1787 and signed the document that Americans know as the current day constitution. Tyranny is prevented through the constitution through Federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, and the big state large state compromise.
Federalism guards against tyranny by dividing the power between into two places, the state, and the central government. The state gets powers such as, establish schools, regulate in-state businesses, and hold elections. The state is the local government and it deals with local problems that don’t affect the whole nation. The central government does national situations that would affect the whole country or are international. For example, some of

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