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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... appointed judges on this basis from 1660 until 1667; after that the old formula, that judges served at the king's pleasure, was restored. Even the Bill of Rights of 1689 provided no guarantee of judicial independence. death wholesale ...
... appointed for life, an executive with an absolute veto over all legislation, and an explicit subordination of the states to the new central government. Yet there are few moments when these misgivings show in the text of the Federalist.9 ...
... appointed an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1789. A ver- sion of his speech to the ratifying convention quickly appeared in print; the text here is a later one produced by Thomas Lloyd, Secretary to the Pennsylvania ...
... appointed to the Virginia Council of State in 1777, and then to the Continental Congress in 1779. In 1784 he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates and began to campaign for a new national constitution. Madison played key roles ...
... appointed the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was governor of New York from 1795 to 1801. It should be noted that the Bill of Rights was originally intended only to entrench certain rights against the federal ...