David+Brearly

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Justen Bates David Brearly D a  v i d B r e a r l  y

**Introduction:** Have you heard about a tyranny? Well it is when one or a couple people rule over everyone. Sort of like a king, well this is how the United States would be without the Constitution. The Constitution is a safe guard against tyranny. It prevents any ruler or branch of government from becoming too powerful and taking complete control over everything. If these delegates never agreed on the same terms and never created the Constituion the United States would be in chaos. Not to mention very unstable in most situations. The founding fathers were very creative in making this document.

**Biography:** David was born on June 11, 1745 at spring grove farm. He was the delegate for New Jersey. His lifestyle was modest, and he was a colonel in the militia. After the militia he became supreme chief justice. The British arrested him for treason, but a group of friendly patriots rescued him. David strongly backed the Constitution and had a good part in it as most delegates did.

** Role at Constitution Convention: ** David was a big part in finishing the Constitution. David was one of many delegates, but without him and them, they could not build and decide on the frame. The help of every delegate formed the Constitution. When the Constitution was finished, he then signed it. David was the delegate representative for the state of New Jersey. He was then a presidential elector. Under this title, George Washington was elected president.

__**​**__ The Guard Against Tyranny: __**
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Federalism is one guard for the constitution against tyranny. David Brearley was a federalist and supported this cause. He helped in writing the federalist papers. David was at the contitutional convention to aid in the effort to help protect the United States from tyranny. ​ The second guard against tyranny was seperation of power. This, was favored by David Brearly because all the delegates took the time to realize and draw out any problems the government could endure. He was at the meetings and helped think of different guards to protect the United States from Tyranny. This kept any one part of the government from becoming too powerful and turning into a dictatorship.

The third guard against tyranny is checks and balances. David was again in favor of this because inside the Constitution it shows that each branch of the government has to check each other out. So this prevents a president or congress from becoming too powerful a turning the United States into a country so that we have to follow a leaders orders. David was in favor because if he wasn't why would he be there in the first place?

The last guard against tyranny was Large vs. Small states. This had a big part in involving David Brearly. He was from New Jersey and since this state is very small, it had little say in anything the convention was doing. The larger states, had more say because of their population, but since the smaller states had less they wanted to be equal to the big states. This was probably the most important guard Brearly was involved in.


 * Attendance**
 * || ** Present ** || ** Absent ** || ** Do Not Know ** || ** Probably Present ** || ** Probably Absent ** ||
 * ** Act 1 ** || 16 || 1 || 0 || 5 || 0 ||
 * ** Act 2 ** || 18 || 3 || 0 || 7 || 4 ||
 * ** Act 3 ** || 20 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0 ||
 * ** Act 4 ** || 13 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 ||
 * ** Totals ** || 67 || 4 || 0 || 16 || 4 ||
 * ** % ** || 73 || 4 || 0 || 17 || 4 ||

**In Article II Section 5-** The Constitution talks about how no one but a born citizen of the United States can become the president. David would've agreed with this rule because I dont think he would someone who was from out of this country. Also, if we got into a situation with a country, someone could come from there and become president, resulting in war or complete domination. This is a very good point about the world and how certain things could happen.


 * To make rules for the government in regulation to land and naval forces :** This is a big point in a countries security. If a government decides to invade somewhere they have to follow certain rules so that nothing like a genocide could happen. If anybody could come in and muder and invade a country theyd be thought as terrorists. The United States however, has this rule to prevent this from happening.

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