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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... defense of the Constitution is the 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 ...
... defense, which is paramount to all positive forms of government.” In a large country, where the State governments would be prepared to provide leadership in resisting the usurpations of central authority, the people would have the ...
... Defense of the Constitutions of the United States of America (1787–8), the first vol- ume of which appeared in time to be read by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Adams' purpose was to defend the Massachusetts model ...
... defenses of party are before the nineteenth century. Machiavelli had taken it for granted that politics involved conflicting interests, and that the clash of interests was an essential mark of political vitality. However, he xviii ...
... defense of party (in English) occurs in the introduction to Edward Spelman's translation of Polybius (the ancient Greek historian) on balanced government. First published in 1743 and twice republished, Spelman was used by Adams in his ...