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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... 110 The Federalist 140 No. 1: Introduction (October 27, 1787) [Hamilton] 140 No. 2: Concerning the Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence (October 31, 1787) [Jay] 143 v No. 6: No. 7: No. 8: No. 9: No. 10: Contents.
... influence on the life of a people, and no other political document has so succinctly summarized a wholly new way of thinking about politics. To understand the Constitution we need to explore its intellectual origins, the ideas it sought ...
... influence. The writings of the anti-Federalists contain no comparable defense of opposition in general, or party in particular, and it is thus important that the Federalist wholeheartedly embraces the principle of opposition (if not ...
... influential (one can see his influence, for example, in Webster's Examination) in insisting that power always follows property, so the crucial precondition for political freedom is a relatively equal distribution of wealth. An important ...
... influence the decisions of the legislative. What was new in de Lolme was not so much the identification of the problem of legislative supremacy, as the conviction that there were constitutional solutions to this problem. hand, that it ...