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An 8 page research that discusses the checks and balances of the Constitution, as well as other aspects of the Constitution and the functions that this historic document performs.
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that existed under the Articles of Confederation, that is the constitution that was formulated during the American Revolution, was simply not working. The States were forming policy, issuing currency and
generally acting as independent countries rather than members of a single nation (Morris, 1990). After a great deal of intense and heated debate, the Constitutional Convention produced the U.S.
Constitution, which describes a "sovereign government with clearly defined powers and responsibilities" (Morris). Using "spare, eloquent language," the delegates successfully navigated between the "equal dangers of tyranny and ineffectualness with
a system of checks and balances" (Morris, 1990). Checks and balances/power in the federal government The reasons why the Founding Fathers divided the government into the legislative, judicial and
executive branches have to do directly with the division of power within the federal government. The point of the American Revolution, as the Declaration of Independence points out, was to
secure the "rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" (Patrick, 2003). However, the Founding Fathers recognized that the U.S. could easily trade the tyranny of a monarch
for the tyranny of an authoritarian government if that government was not instituted according to a carefully conceived framework. John Adams, for example, gave this matter considerably thought and he
advised the leaders of several states, in regards to establishing their state constitutions, to consider the threat of tyranny and institute a government comprised of three branches. Adams wrote:
A Legislative, an Executive, and a judicial power comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by Government. It is by balancing each of these Powers against the other
two, that the Effort in human Nature toward Tyranny can alone be checked and restrained and any degree of Freedom preserved in the constitution (Adams, as cited by Patrick, 2003).
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