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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... appears to be a peculiarly Anglo-Saxon invention, transported by the English colonists to North America, and then copied from America by the French in 1789. That the people should choose their representatives seems a straightforward ...
... appears in Cato's Letters [1721], the key text that developed the idea that majorities need to be prevented from acting tyrannically.) The idea of representation on which the Americans relied was therefore little more than a century old ...
... appear here are those of Madison, which are now generally accepted. The present text follows the first edition of each essay (with the correction of obvious errors) but records in the notes all significant variations in the McLean ...
... appears to us to be nugatory and delusive; and only introduced as a blind upon the real nature of the government. In our opinion, “pursuant to the constitution,” will be coextensive with the will and pleasure of Congress, which, indeed ...
... so far as to make the concurrence of two-thirds of the representatives and senators present necessary, if he should object to the laws. Thus it appears that the liberties, happiness, interests, and great 16 The Anti-Federalists.