Zachary Barnett
Government
G2
ESSAY
What is tyranny? Tyranny is when one has too much power with the ability to control the government. So how did the constitution guard against tyranny? The constitution guarded against tyranny by making the different forms of government and how the government was formed to have checks and balances of different powers. The powers are split and shared by the state and government so no one power can control each other. As the words of James Madison say, “The different governments will each control each other; at the same time that each will be controlled by itself,” he means that the state and the central government should have some differences and similarities from each other. Because of that there should be no tyranny because the central government cannot control the states decisions on some choices such as the set up of local governments, while the same goes for the states control over the central government. The separation of the central government to form three different powers will make central government control itself from tyranny. If the control of the accumulated powers are controlled by a single or group of people then it will be justly defined as tyranny, as stated by James Madison. When each is separated to be distinct then the definition of tyranny will not match the government. Separation of checks and balances are made on the different types of offices so that they do not have too much power to be a tyranny.