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Federalism Protects Against Tyranny

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America has broken free from British power and needs to get control of their own nation. They meet in Philadelphia for a constitutional convention in May of 1787. How did the rule book protect against having too much power? When one person has too much power. The constitution guarded against tyranny in several ways which are federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances and big vs small states. The first guard against was federalism which means a type of government. Both shared the power to enforce the laws and to tax. (Doc A) Federalism protects tyranny because not one government gets too much power. A second guard against tyranny was separation of powers which means, splitting the powers up. When there's not too
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