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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... Faction and Insurrection (November 21, 1787) [Hamilton] The Same Subject Continued (November 22, 1787) [Madison] The Utility of the Union in Respect to Revenue (November 27, 1787) [Hamilton] An Objection Drawn from the Extent of Country ...
... factions or parties. To the old way of thinking, factions were anathema: There existed one common good, on which all virtuous and rational people could agree. It ought always, therefore, to be possible to establish near unanimity; to ...
... factions of the late medieval Italian city-states, one allied to the Pope, the other to the Emperor). The first important defense of party (in English) occurs in the introduction to Edward Spelman's translation of Polybius (the ancient ...
... factions, in the State.” One, “that of the populace,” was envious of the rich and tended to “general levelism, and democratic turbulence,” while the other, “that of the rich,” tended to “an alteration of the constitution of our State ...
... factions will necessarily tend to represent minorities, and government will have to be by compromise and coalition. Enlargement thus had the great advantage of weakening parties and encouraging nonpartisan debate. Madison is thus ...