Civil Society's Role In Democracy

How does the constitution guard against tyranny? The constitution guards against tyranny because of the power being shared, government branches, and checks and balances. I know this because of the documents in the DBQ I also knew it from the questions based on what I read. First of all, the power is shared. This can guard against tyranny because when one person gains too much power, then tyranny is almost guaranteed because there would not be an easy way to stop them from doing only what they desire.

Governments like to be in command and supervise its citizens. With that, there are always some citizens that will rebel over the people in charge. People will rebel because they gain much knowledge from literature, news media, entertainment, and presently, the internet that contradicts the government. The government is intelligent because it has the power to change what the people look at to make them dense and without an opinion of what the government says. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows an accurate representation of what the government does to its people.

These activist created change the correct way; through the political system and minds of society, not through brute force and criminal acts. While people like Malcolm X, were able to enlist change through brute force tactics at times, it was also well documented the lives and businesses lost by these methods. The gist, is that civil disobedience just creates more tension in a probably already volatile

Absolute power..good or bad?It's a topics often brought up in discussion. can Absolutism be justified as a means of providing order in otherwise unstable societies?Absolutism would help a unstable country because having at least one person running it is better than none because if the people were to decide they wouldn't agree on things and it would just huge mess and they would live in chaos.Document 2,6, and 7 help support my thesis. Absolute monarchy is a type of government in which the monarch has absolute power/control over his people.In the 2nd document it explains how the leader makes all of the decisions and that the rest of the members just follow that one persons will.In the document it states” The head alone has the right to deliberate and decide, and the functions of all the other members consist only in carrying out the commands given to them”which shows that everybody follows the leader with absolute power.Absolutism was used in Europe when King Louis built the palace of Versailles.He had complete control of it and he showed that by building the palace. Devine rights is the doctrine that kings and queens have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin.In document 6 it's explains how horrible it would be for a king to use a power that God has

The constitution guards against tyranny through federalism. Federalism is when the power of government is shared between a central government and state governments. “The different governments will each control each other at the same time each will be controlled by itself” (Madison, 1788). These two governments compete for power with each other instead of trying to take it from the people. Federalism is the first way the constitution guards against tyranny.

While government leaders have supreme power and are entrusted to make change, citizens need to be heard in politics and need to have the ability to make political change. The specific cases of civil rights, women’s liberation

(U.S. Constitution Amendment II) This allows for citizens to form a resistance if the government becomes corrupt, keeping the government in check. The English Bill of Rights and the Constitution also allows for peaceful assembly of people to protest. The right to assembly allows for large groups of people to spread their ideals and publicly bring the government’s shortcomings to the light. This allows for rapid spread in ideas that can benefit a government such as the civil rights

This excerpt is giving a sturdy explanation on the topic of tyranny,and how it gave us a clarification on how tyranny is being stopped by overpowering the king.Critics also argued that the king or queen could create laws that applied to only some people and not others, and that unelected officials could make decisions that negatively affected citizens.The people were exhausted and started to realize that they wanted to overthrow the king themselves. Critics of the monarch read and discussed what tyranny meant in order to argue for their notion of the rule of law. Two of the most important people who wrote about tyranny were the ancient Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. At the time of the American Revolution, critics of tyranny discussed and circulated many of Plato and Aristotle’s writings to explain their opposition to tyranny,and how Aristotle had a better view on how the government should ran, the founding fathers took a very good attraction towards the idea of having the rule of law that Aristotle

In his essay he explains the importance of the media and its effect on the general public. The media is supposed to be just like a warrior fighting with a pen or like a mirror which shows us or strives to show us the bare truth and astringent realities of life. However, in recent years the media has, like other agencies, come under the influence of politicians. Therefore, the media no more writes about the people’s grievance but in support of the ruling government party. It has been contaminated by political influences.

Civil disobedience is the refusal to behave in accordance with certain societal norms or to obey certain laws that are seen as unjust. In short, civil disobedience can range from sit-ins, to protests, to marches. Civil disobedience is a tool often used by disenfranchised and downtrodden citizens to usher change from their governments in regard to laws or systems they see as unjust. It allows the citizens of a nation to bring about necessary change in their country without violence. Civil disobedience has proven time and again to be an effective tool in ushering in change throughout history and even today.