Tyranny Dbq

Federalism is the division of power between national and state government. Federalism was supported by Doc A, an excerpt of The Federalist Papers; A series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of the Constitution. The following quote is an excerpt from Federalist Paper #51, written in 1778 by James Madison. “In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and the portion allotted to each subdivided among districts and separate departments.” In the aforementioned quote, James Madison is referring to the national state governments. Due to federalism, power is split between local and federal governments, preventing all power being controlled by one group. As a result, the two governments each have their own powers, which prevents total rule from a national or state government. Additionally, the power in these branches are split into three more branches. This prevents any one branch of government from having total power, which guards against

A third way that the framers used the Constitution protects against tyranny was checks and balances. “...The constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that they check on the other...” The main goal is to make sure that each of the three branches have control over each other but still separated. This protects against tyranny because each branch has powers the control one another. In document C it states how each level of government limits and balances each other out to keep the powers even, and how

This system guards against tyranny by making sure the systems are separate and distinct. In federalist paper #51 James Madison says, “...the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that they may be a check on each other…. The three branches should not be so far separated as to have no constitutional control over each other.” In the three branches triangle in Document C it shows how each branch checks on each other. The legislative can check on executive by having the power to impeach the president and override a veto it can also check on the judicial branch by approving the president's nominations, impeach the judges and remove them from office. The executive can veto the legislative bills and can nominate judges for the judicial branch. Finally the judicial branch can declare that the legislative branches laws are unconstitutional and can declare that the president is acting unconstitutional. This guards against tyranny because it doesn’t allow one branch to have more powers than the

First, federalism helped to protect against tyranny by having federalism. According to James Madison, “In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments” (Document A). The quote is explaining the idea of federalism government is divided into a central and state government that controls each other and themselves. This quote demonstrates how the Constitution guards against tyranny.

Document C states that “... the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as they may be a check on the other…[The three branches] should not be so far separated as to have no constitutional control over each other.” This means that every branch checks on each other to make sure they are all on the same page and have the same amount of power. They all check their equal power by approving or disapproving something that the other branch has done. For example, the Legislative Branch can override the presidential veto while the Executive Branch can veto a congressional

The Article of Confederation were a disaster and since the Americans just broke away from Britain we needed a more permanent and solid solution. The solution we can up with was the Constitution. The Constitution was written in 1787 and the purpose of this was to make a strong and balanced government that would prevent tyranny. A group of men signed this document in Philadelphia. One of the questions are what about this document prevented tyranny? How did things such as Federalism, Separation of powers, Checks and balances, and how big state's power and small state's power were well balanced out prevent tyranny within America?

In document C, James Madison states that the three branches should “be a check on the other,” and that the branches must have “constitutional control over the other.” This describes the idea of checks and balances that can be seen in the that each branch has power over another. An example would be how the president can veto a congressional legislation, but the Congress can override his veto. By giving each branch certain powers to check others and balance each other out, James Madison believed that the Constitution guarded against tyranny and stopped any of the branches from gaining too much

In document B and C, separation of powers of the three branches, legislative, judicial, and executive, ensures that not one power is greater than the other. However, as a form of checks and balances, the branches should not be separated to the point of having no constitutional control over each other. Madison stated "Liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct." (Federalist paper #51) but “..they may be a check on the other” (Federalist paper #51) meaning that the three branches have separate powers, but are able to have constitutional control on each other. For example, Legislative branch can approve the presidential nomination, override a president’s veto, and impeach the president from the executive branch while the senate confirms the president's nominations for the judges and remove them from the office from the judicial branch”. While,the executive branch can veto the congressional legislation from the legislative branch and nominate judges for the judicial branch. The judicial branch can declare presidential acts unconstitutional in the executive branch and declare laws unconstitutional to the legislative branch. (Document C). Framer guarded against tyranny through separation of powers but still being able to check on each other and having constitutional control on each other. The branches should be separate and distinct as if they were together, it would be given too much absolute power to one group. Checks and balances illustrates how the constitution guarded against tyranny because the three branches have fair opportunity to stop the other branches from committing an unconstitutional act. Additionally to how checks and balances the constitution from tyranny, “The Great Compromise” does the

States can create local authorities, conduct elections and create schools. As James Madison said, "different governments will control each other, at the same time everyone will be controlled by himself. " What James Madison is trying to say is that the central and state governments have sufficient power not to do so. control everything. The central government has sufficient authority to help some of the country's basic needs, and the state government has sufficient

The first guard against tyranny was Federalism. Federalism means the power given to the states, central governments and the powers that they both share. Document A states that the central government can regulate trade, conduct foreign relations, and declare war. Federalism protects against tyranny because the central government and state government have enough power that they do not control everything. James Madison states that "the different governments will each control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself."

Federalism was the first guard against tyranny. The central government and states both had their own powers but also shared a few. They had trading, conducting foreign relations, declaring war, making immigration laws etc. Local state governments got elections, establishing schools, passing marriage and divorce laws, and regulating in-state business. “The different governments will control each other and at the same time it will be controlled by itself,” said James Madison in the federalist paper #51.

Federalism helped to protect against tyranny by dividing the power between two governments: states and federal. According to James Madison, Founding Father, “The different governments will each control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” This quote, from the text Federalist Paper #51 refers to how the state and federal have individual responsibilities, but are also connected enough to keep other’s powers in check. This quote reminds the readers that the Constitution formed the separate state and federal governments to provide a double security against tyranny by splitting the power between two governments, making sure that the decisions made were the best for the citizens. Ultimately, federalism prevented tyranny by separating the power between two governments, which guarded against a possible tyranny in the

Thesis: Although they established America’s independence from England during the Revolutionary War, the Founding Fathers are in actuality another elite class who persuaded the other classes to support them during the war in order to keep control. Thus, like how England had tyranny over the Colonies, the Founding Fathers took over as tyrants to suit their needs.

Tyranny is an awful thing in our government, without our constitution we would have a tyranny. Thankfully in 1787 many of our country’s leaders were dissatisfied of the way our government was structured by the Articles Of Confederation, which had been in effect for six years since 1781. The purpose of the constitution was to make a new federal government that would be more powerful whilst protecting the rights and liberties that had been won in the revolutionary war. They separated the powers to avoid tyranny, the powers were separated into four ways: Federalism, Separation of power, Checks & balances, and big states and small states.

Madison’s idea of a division between central and state governments is compound. A “compound” is two or more pieces. The two pieces that fabricate Madison’s compound government is the “central” federal government and state government. Another word for this compound government is federalism. This compound government provides “double security” to the people because the governments (state and federal) check and balance each other so that one doesn’t get too powerful. Power given to the states have smaller influences i.e. that the state only impact the states, is patterned in the power the Constitution reserved for the state governments. Federalism guards against tyranny by dividing power between groups so that no one group has more control and power. James Madison, in the Federalist Paper #47, says “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....(L)iberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.” The main idea of Madison’s quote is that accumulative powers should be separate yet distinct. Madison hints towards a possible tyranny in a democracy because the “accumulation of all powers....whether of one ...and