It was the year of 1777 that the Americans finally got their freedom from the British during the Revolutionary War. Since they were an independent country, they had to create their own government to control the country. The solution to this was to create the Articles of Confederation, but with it came many problems for the still developing country. Ten years later in the May of 1787 in the city of Philadelphia, fifty-five delegates from all states, excluding Rhode Island, met together to discuss the problems created the Articles of Confederation. Alexander Hamilton, one of the framers of the Constitution, had to make the Constitution tyranny-proof, which was a major issue confronted during some of the conventions. Tyranny is when one or more individuals obtain absolute power over others and possibly become a dictator. In the end, the framers came up with four different ways that the Consitution guarded against tyranny using federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, and the Great Compromise.

The first way that the Constitution guarded against tyranny was federalism. Federalism means that power is shared …show more content…
As stated in the Federalist Papers #47: Doc B, "The accumulation of all powers...in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." It also states that "Liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct." This prevents tyranny because no department will be able to gain more power than the other. The second quote mentions that the departments should be "separate and distinct," meaning that no person should be part of more that one department at the same time. Also, the first quote says that "the accumulation of all powers...in the same hands...may be justly pronounced the very definition of