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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... Common Sense of January 1776, the book that announced the coming revolution.2 Originally the word “revolution” had implied simply “recurrence,” that is, a return or repetition. By the late seventeenth century its meaning had begun to ...
... common. The first author to argue bluntly that a collective body can make decisions only on the basis of simple majorities is Hobbes; the first use of the word “majority” to refer to the winning side in a vote is in Locke's manuscripts ...
... common good of the society.” Elections should serve to identify these individuals, and self-government would be simply impossible if virtuous individuals did not exist. (In Hamilton's words, “The institution of dele- gated power implies ...
... common good” (note that “vir- tue” here is used in something close to the sense with which Machiavelli uses virtú, meaning, not Christian virtue, but the ability to attain one's goals) were to be neither idealized republican citizens ...
... common law: which stands here upon no other Foundation than its having been adopted by the respective Acts forming the Constitutions of the several States. In the House of Representatives there is not the Substance, but the Shadow only ...