Tyranny At its birth, the United State's most pressing concern was to piece together a constitution to secure their floundering liberties and unite the states under a common rule of justice for all. From the Constitution's elaborate system of checks and balances, one gets the sense the framers seemed very apprehensive about people and their politicians possibly using the government's power tyrannically. This great problem did not cease when they penned the hopeful phrase "more …showed first 75 words of 504 total…

…showed last 75 words of 504 total…those bringing forth those facts, as with the media's personal attack on Kenneth Starr. These examples show the increasing use of emotion-based tactics by one political party to defeat another which bases their arguments on facts. Television, political debates, and impeachment trials do not have to rely on emotions. A major problem in politics today is the strong reliance on emotions, a co-dependent relationship Aristotle and the founders feared. Its harmful effects are already showing.