They thought the power of the Government could limited by dividing the power between different branches and levels of government.
The Constitution is based on the separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. The founders felt that by dividing the power between three branches the power of government could be limited.
They were following the advice of Baron Montiesque that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The philosophy was that people want to do good but are easily corrupted doing what is bad. Therefore people have to be protected from the power of the government.
The bill of rights the first 10 amendments to the constitution were also designed to limit the power of the government and protect the people from the power of the government.
The second amendment allows the people to have weapons so that the people can over throw the government. The tenth amendment is suppose to limit the power of federal government. Any powers that are not specifically given to the federal government are reserved for the state governments and the individual people.
It left he nations with the choice to declare their independence.
Explanation:
Most of the nations of the eastern region had declared their independence from the mother state of USSR and its communist regimes right after the fall of the USSR.
This was done when they got the free choice to do so if they pleased and the majority of the states had simply opted out.
There was a sense of dissatisfaction among the people with that mode of governance and they had seen the developed of the Democratic countries and wanted it for them.
The states had thus chosen for democracy
It was a place of great virtue and morality
I think it’s C. Louisiana Purchase
<span>On the issue of state sovereignty, the text states that since around 1992, the supreme court has started considering and restoring the view that federal actions do not always have to be accepted by the states and that some forms of the federal actions can be resisted by the states (it was a right not a privilege).
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