How do you think life would be like if the Constitution didn’t protect us and we had only a king? No government. In May of 1787, in Philadelphia, they had a document called the Articles of Confederation where there was no chief executive and no central government. While the delegates who made it were satisfied, James Madison was worried that it wasn’t good enough and the framers who made it would end up creating tyranny. `How did the document of fundamental principles protect us from one king or a group of people over powering on everybody.The Constitution guards against tyranny in four ways:Federalism, Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers & The Great Compromise.
Federalism made a systematic principle in the Constitution that protects us from people or somebody that feels like they can try …show more content…
Which brings me to my next topic: Separation among the government. James Madison was one to think that the Articles of Confederation wasn’t good enough, that there needed to be something new and better create. The Constitution gives the three branches of government the chance to have powers the other one may not have. The point of separation is that the government isn’t just a big group of people that meets every month and discusses their issues and creates new ideas, They made three groups because if there was just a big, gigantic group of people, everyone would try to take control by himself and rule over everybody else. In Federalist Paper #47, James Madison had written “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 the very definition of tyranny.” His quote on the definition of tyranny is that no matter what there still is an issue of someone or a group wanting to create
Federalism made a systematic principle in the Constitution that protects us from people or somebody that feels like they can try …show more content…
Which brings me to my next topic: Separation among the government. James Madison was one to think that the Articles of Confederation wasn’t good enough, that there needed to be something new and better create. The Constitution gives the three branches of government the chance to have powers the other one may not have. The point of separation is that the government isn’t just a big group of people that meets every month and discusses their issues and creates new ideas, They made three groups because if there was just a big, gigantic group of people, everyone would try to take control by himself and rule over everybody else. In Federalist Paper #47, James Madison had written “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 the very definition of tyranny.” His quote on the definition of tyranny is that no matter what there still is an issue of someone or a group wanting to create