so that we as United States would not become a tyrant like the king we where under when we where colonies
They didn’t create a weak national government, but one with a balanced set of powers.
They didn’t create a weak national government, but one with a balanced set of powers.
The people who set up the US government are generally called the "Founding Fathers."
Certainly not. He was one of the founding fathers who pushed for the Revolution and set up the new government after the revolution succeeded.
Our forefathers set up the Checks and Balances system. The three branches of government. The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Not one of them has more power than the other. It takes two of them to agree to overturn a decision. Even the President can not change a vote or an outcome of one of the other branches without approval of another branch.
the founding fathers set up the checks and balances so that no particular branch of the governemtn got too powerful. checks and balances pretty much make the branches of government enemies of each other because in order to get anything done, you have to go through the other brnches.
Our founding fathers declered indipendence in 1776. Great Britain did not recognize it until 1783. But the government we have today was set up at the constitutional congress. It was approved in 1789.
What Beard meant when he said that the founding fathers were a conspiratorial economic elite, he simply meant that the founding fathers were out for the elite group of society. Most of the laws first set forth by the constitution were for the wealthy, not for the everyday people. The founding fathers were out for their own economic interests
In a republican form of government, elected representatives are responsible for the government operation and are also responsible to those citizens who elected them. The Founding Fathers did not establish a pure democracy within the Constitution of the United States. They provided for indirect democracy, or, a republic. The Founding Fathers were classical conservatives. They believed that democratic ideals would best be obtained by a governenment that was not dependent upon the daily whims of the population. The people would best be served by electing representatives who would uphold the framework of government set down in the Constitution.
Since the British had lived under the British for so long and the British were so cruel to them, most people distrusted a strong central government and that is why they did not want a national government.
The Magna Carta was believed to set historic precedent by the Founding Fathers. In that case, the barons had confronted a despot and demanded their rights be recognized, recorded and agreed upon by King John. In the case of the Founding Fathers, they sought to confirm their rights before George III and Parliament.
Its political system cannot be easily changed.