The Role Of Tyranny In The United States

Tyranny is when a person has a lot of power on their hands or have a complete control over a nation. The United States of America revolts against the King of England because he was taxing the population of the thirteen colonies on his will. Therefore, the revolutionary war began with the confrontation between the British’s troop deployed by the King and local militia at (Lexington and Concord) in Massachusetts between 1775to 1783. Since then the constitution saves the United States of America from tyranny because of the separation of power, checks and balances between the three branches and the equal representation from all the states. Firstly, the separation of the powers prevents the United States to tyranny because all the decisions do not come from one particular person or one group of people. Therefore this separation prevents from the abuse of the power as the King of England used to do to his population. There are three branches: Executive branch, Legislative branch and Judicial Branch. The executive branch is represented by the president, the legislative branch by the …show more content…
These checks and balances prevent to limit the power of one branch. The check and balance work as this: the legislative vote a bill and the bill go to the executive to sign. If the executives does not believe, he may not sign called veto and the legislative will have another chance to override the veto with enough vote and become law. If the constitutional branch does not think it is constitutional, they can always declare unconstitutional. According to document C in the constitution, it says “the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner or that they may be check on the other.” This quote clearly explains the goal of check and balance between the branches. It guards us against tyranny because every branch have some impacts on the other