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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... Federalists 1 George Mason, Objections to the Constitution of Government Formed by the Convention (November 1787) 1 ... Federalist 140 No. 1: Introduction (October 27, 1787) [Hamilton] 140 No. 2: Concerning the Dangers from Foreign ...
... Federalist (published in installments from October 27, 1787 to May 28, 1788), and it is by reading the Federalist as a reply to anti-Federalist arguments that one can best begin the study of the Constitution and the ideas it embodies ...
... Federalist believed the American colonists had “accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society: They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.” This revolutionary ...