The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist PapersHackett Publishing, 15. sep. 2003 - 392 strani Here, in a single volume, is a selection of the classic critiques of the new Constitution penned by such ardent defenders of states' rights and personal liberty as George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Melancton Smith; pro-Constitution writings by James Wilson and Noah Webster; and thirty-three of the best-known and most crucial Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The texts of the chief constitutional documents of the early Republic are included as well. David Wootton's illuminating Introduction examines the history of such American principles of government as checks and balances, the separation of powers, representation by election, and judicial independence—including their roots in the largely Scottish, English, and French new science of politics. It also offers suggestions for reading The Federalist, the classic elaboration of these principles written in defense of a new Constitution that sought to apply them to the young Republic. |
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... Essay 69) embark on “a comparison between the president and the King of Great Britain on the one hand, and the Governor of New York on the other,” their enterprise is simply a smaller, more modest version of that of Adams in his vast ...
... Essay 57, which is his contribution to this debate, he manages to avoid this word completely. He successfully argues that the constitution is not going to establish an “oligarchy,” but he has no name for what it will establish, which is ...
... (Essay 12). A proper understanding of political economy was thus to be the precondition for enlightened legislation by an intellectual and social elite. The new political economy was also a precondition for the Federalist's conviction ...
... essay on October 18, 1787, so that his argument is independent of, and may have influenced, Federalist 50.) Representation, though, for the authors of the Federalist, was only a good thing if the number of representatives was not too ...
... (Essay 69), but the goal of the Convention was to establish a constitution which would have all the advantages traditionally ascribed to a mixed constitution: it would govern in the interest of the people, it would draw on the wisest and ...