The power of the government and the rights of the individual
States rights versus federal rights , and individual rights for citizens versus protecting all the citizens under the law of the land.
the idea of freeing slaves and allowing minority groups as well as women the right to vote were unpopular ideas, who later became part of the constitution.
by the check and balance system and the three-branch sytem
If you are asking about the US Constitution, it was not one person but a collective of ideas from representatives of all the thirteen colonies then. Benjamin Franklin and George Washington are but two of them. Many of the ideas came from the Native Americans and settlers too.
The two important ideas of John Locke that are reflected in the Constitution are that people have natural rights to life, liberty and the property and the government is an agreement between ruler and the ruled.
Two enlightenment ideas included in the Constitution are the concept of popular sovereignty, which asserts that the authority of the government is derived from the consent of the governed, and the principle of separation of powers, which divides governmental power among three branches to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
The Supreme Court may not amend the Constitution, but their interpretations definitely serve as checks and balances on the other two branches. Laws have to agree with the Constitution to be legal.
The main concern of the constitution was that no one person or body have too much power, so there was built into the framework a way to check and balance all bodies of government.
traditional things and modern things
false it was the concentration of too much power. novanet !
No, the Framers created a republic, not a democracy.
we have two type of Constitution Direct constitution and Indirect Constitution that is type of constitution we have