The complex structure they devised has three institutions that constrain the power of the federal government. ![]() ![]() Their task was to first give the federal government enough power to function, then to constrain that power so it could not become tyrannical. The Framers of the Constitution understood that they needed to give the new federal government sufficient power to resolve the conflicts among the states and keep the union together at a time when it was falling apart (the phrase in the preamble “to form a more perfect union” was not a hollow boast but a worried hope), but given their recent experience as colonies they feared creating a government with enough power to tyrannize the public. The American political system is a complex structure.
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