The three-branch system established a strong central government without giving too much power to any one group.
Article III
The basic principle in the U.S. government is democracy. The founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution wanted to make sure the people had control.
NO. The United States is a representative democracy and its Constitution gives no provisions for direct democracy.
The founding fathers
They're often referred to as the "Framers of the Constitution." The Framers also happened to be the Founding Fathers of the United States.
The three-branch system established a strong central government without giving too much power to any one group.
Article III
The basic principle in the U.S. government is democracy. The founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution wanted to make sure the people had control.
NO. The United States is a representative democracy and its Constitution gives no provisions for direct democracy.
The senate and house
FramersEdit: The name given to the individuals that created the Constitution is the "Founding Fathers" or the "Framers."
The framers distributed the power of the Constitution because the new world was to be created by the people. The new world wanted to get out from under the rule of one person, like in England.
The checks and balances were created to keep any one branch of government or any one person from having too much power.
The founding fathers
The First Government of the United StatesAmericans had significant experience with self-government before the writing of the Constitution in 1787, and this experience shaped the political views of the framers who wrote the Constitution and factored into the formation of the first government. A constitution is a set of rules that determines how power will be used legitimately in a state. Contrary to popular belief, few governments have been created by written constitutions.
The framers wanted this because they didn't want the national government to get too strong and become a monarchy, like the one they just worked so hard to get out of. The constitution created a federal system as a compromise so that power of government would be shared between the states and federal government, and the federal government would not become too powerful. It was the only choice the founders thought they had in order to achieve this.