One political policy that was a major success were the newly developed Basic laws. These were introduced to try remove any remaining Nazi or was legacies. One of the Basic laws was that a new political parliament known as the Bundestag was to be set up. This created a democracy in West Germany. This was successful because Safe guards were put in place to ensure that no one could ever take all power as Hitler Did when he was President of the post war Reichstag.
Locke and Montesquieu believed that limited government (government has limits and every person has rights) was best. Montesquieu thought that governments such as monarchies and despots caused conflict between the people and the government. Limiting the government’s power over the people would take away the chances of a monarchy or despotism forming, and the best way to do that would be to divide the government into three different branches. Dividing the government into three branches will make sure one branch is not becoming more powerful than another, eliminating the chances of it becoming ruled by a monarch or despot. Locke believed that the government should never even be given such a great amount of power.
The guard of federalism is shown one way in the Constitution when they set up the compound government to make sure that the federal government doesn’t get too much power. The second way is when some responsibilities are given to the state government so that they can share the power equally. Federalism protects against tyranny because it ensures that the federal government doesn’t have too much to say in what happens in the country so that they don’t become too powerful and create tyranny. The second guard against tyranny was the separation of powers which means that the government is separated into separate branches so that they can spread out the power so that one branch of the government can have more pull in what happen in the decisions made
It all began with James Madison who was, “considered the “Father of the Constitution,” and believed that strict limits on federal power were best for liberty. Powers of the federal government which were not enumerated in the Constitution were forbidden” (“Constitutional” 1). This is how society should be today, where the federal government is restricted to enacting on the laws solely stated in the constitution. Now many presidents and high authority leaders began to follow this idea. With all other powers off limits to the federal government, they didn’t get too powerful.
However the other two will check the one wanting to exceed thus, balancing out the power and securing citizens from a dictatorship type of government. Another reason would simply be when he states, “If men were angles, no government would be necessary.” In other words since we are not angles but are men if we had power in our hands we would abuse it. Then he continues that even though the powers are shared and are equal the government should still be able to control not only the people but, themselves. This will only help protect the people’s individual rights including the minority. In the end he says that in order to have a balanced government the majority must agree on justice.
Also a person having all power in the hands of one individual. In 1787 a group of delegates for 12 of the 13 states meet in Philadelphia to try to better the country. The constitution was written in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was made so no central government would become powerful and there wouldn’t be any tyranny. The constitution guarded against tyranny in several ways such as federalism, separation of powers, check and balances, and the big states vs. small states.
"Title: The Federalist No. 10 Author: James Madison Time: November 22, 1787 Short Summary:. The Articles of Confederation did not effectively control and reduce the negative effects of factions on the nation, and thus a new government was necessary. The government laid out in the Constitution was ideal because it was a republic, a representative government that would prevent self-interested passions from holding too much sway over the government. It was also large, containing representatives from every state and many different interest groups, making it difficult for one group to dominate and suppress the others.
There were other provisions in the constitution to defend against abusing power, the system of checks and balances and having three branches in the government. While there was a central government, its power was diffused into three separate branches of relatively equal power. Each branch had the power to watch over the other two branches and stop any unconstitutional actions that were damaging to the government or it's people. The three branches and the system of checks and balances allow for the government to have a large amount of power and assure that it will not abuse the power invested into it by the
Hamilton begins by telling the readers that this paper will discuss the importance of an independent judicial branch and the meaning of judicial review. The constitution proposes the federal judges hold their office for life, subject to good behavior. Hamilton laughs at anyone who questions that life tenure is the most valuable advances in theory of representative government. Permanency in office frees judges from political pressures and prevents invasions on judicial power by the president and congress. The judicial branch of government is by far the weakest branch.
The Congress agreed that they wanted to implement a government that would not be a tyrannical or as powerful as the British Crown had been, and therefore structured the Articles of Confederation to do just that. In 1776, soon after the Declaration of Independence had been ratified, members of Congress began to brainstorm how the new country would run itself. According to the final document, states held most of the power for their prospective territories, and the legislative branch unified the states together as one when applicable (“Articles of Confederation”). Many states expressed their dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation throughout its drafting and ratification stages. Disputes over western lands played the largest role, where most states wanted access to lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.