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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... Civil War, in 1642, that we find the first theorists prepared to argue that a political crisis could actually dissolve all existing authorities—that subjects could find themselves back in a “state of nature,” with the opportunity to ...
... Civil War others insisted that monarchs would always employ their power to thwart the will of the people, and so maintained that only a republican constitution could be legitimate. The Amer- icans were the heirs of this revolutionary ...
... civil government” in Federalist 9) and in the anti-Federalists (for Richard Henry Lee, for example, the proposed constitution is “the new system”). The conceptual tools required to construct and analyze written constitutions thus ...
... Civil War, the tradition in Parliament was that decisions were based on consensus; the counting of votes was rare, and reliance on a mere majority was unseemly. In the Middle Ages, it is hard to find clear statements of the principle ...
... civil power and the confidence of the people.” The Federalist, therefore, does not so much deny the importance of an organized opposition, as displace organized opposition from the national legislature to the inevitable conflict (“power ...