At that time the individual states considered themselves almost as separate sovereign contries that were not subordinate to the will of a national government. No state wanted to give up its rights to govern itself in favor of some national government that would take away the state's powers over most aspects of government. So to appease everyone, the Constitution was written in such a way as to give the federal government certain powers that had national importance as opposed to powers that had only intra-state importance. The idea was to limit the federal government's power by enumerating its powers and then stating that all powers not given to the federal government remain in the states.
Founding Fathers created a limited Government because they did not want the rest of the world to influence the power that they have' and they did not want the common people to rebel against them.
Because ten they would be bossing around.
Because ten they would be bossing around.
they thought that they would give one man too much power.
to limit power of the southern states to extend civil rights to freedmen to provide freedmen with political power
To make sure that one branch isn't too powerful. If you are paying attention to the news you can see how well this is working because congress is stopping Trump.
France is a semi-presidential republic. It has a President and a Prime Minister that share power.
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good governments get their power from their people!
The Founders thought the power of government could be limited by making the government only make certain laws and have a new president every four years.
Not necessarily. If a load has a low power factor, it will be drawing more current than necessary, but its energy consumption will be no different from it having a high power factor.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the US Constitution is often called the "Elastic Clause". It allows Congress to make laws that are considered "reasonable and necessary".
they limit their power because they didnt want them to take over