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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... established legitimacy—magistrates, estates, city councils. In Calvinist Scotland the same assumptions shaped the ... establish a new type of political authority from first principles. This is what we now call the doctrine of “popular ...
... establish a new constitution quite unlike any that had preceded it: they insisted that old forms could be abandoned, and they discussed new forms in terms of distinct powers. John Locke formulated a modified version of these arguments ...
... established, and both Federalists and anti-Federalists made use of it. “The American war is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution,” wrote Benjamin Rush in January 1787, calling for a new constitution ...
... establishing a government controlled by the people. Having put their signature to such an agreement, citizens would be bound to preserve and maintain it. Briefly, England actually was governed under a written constitution, the ...
... established and long-lasting, but also quite specific and detailed. For these commentators, one might say their task was to define a constitution that already existed as a set of practices. Their fundamental conviction was that a ...