How would you feel if one person or group held all the power in your country, state, or school? You would be pretty scared right? Well, that is what tyranny is, and the Constitution for the United States of America is written to protect us from that. The Constitution was written at the Constitutional Convention from May 25th to September 17th, 1787. The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation, but once everyone met together, they ended up writing the Constitution. So, you may be asking, how exactly can the Constitution protect us from tyranny? First let's start by defining tyranny. Tyranny is the rule by a dictator or a king or strong group. It results when the ruler or rulers have too much power. …show more content…
This compound government provides ¨double security¨ because all of the portions that go through the state government and central government are equally divided. So the central and state government actually only have so much power, since it is all divided equally. The type of power allotted to the states can only affect the states. That way, the states can't overthrow the central government. Federalism only allows the central government to have so much power, and it can not affect the state government, and vice versa with the states. The states can not affect the central government because all the decisions affect the state not the central …show more content…
Some examples of checks and balances is the legislature can check the power of the chief executive by overriding a President's veto. Another way is the President can check the power of the Supreme Court is by the President nominating the judges, and the Supreme Court can check the Senate by ruling laws unconstitutional. The framers of the Constitution used this as guard against tyranny by making sure the branches could keep each other in line and not letting one branch become too