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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... judges, holding their offices during good behavior—the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election—these are . . . wholly new discoveries.” In the next few pages I want to look at these new ...
... judges. Judges had served during the King's pleasure until 1715—they could simply be dismissed if their judgments did not please the king.4 It was the activities of royalist judges such as Judge Jeffries (conductor of the Bloody Assizes ...
... judges had been independent “for many centuries,” was simply mistaken.) For Montesquieu, the principle of jury trial was central to English liberty. This principle, along with the separation of powers, was entrenched in the ...
... judges be made completely independent. 13. That no treaty which shall be directly opposed to the existing laws of the United States in Congress assembled, shall be valid until such laws shall be repealed, or made conformable to such ...
... judge proper; in short, every species of taxation, whether of an external or internal nature is comprised in section the 8th, of article the 1st, viz. “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises ...