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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... legislature; an independent judiciary; and a powerful executive directly elected by the people, with control over the armed forces, extensive powers of appointment, an ample salary, and (at least in Adams' original proposal) an absolute ...
... legislature advocated by French philosophes such as Turgot and Americans such as Thomas Paine, and embodied in the constitution of Pennsylvania. (In Pennsylvania, defenders of the Constitution such as Noah Webster had to argue at length ...
... legislature by deputies of their own election—these are . . . wholly new discoveries.” In the next few pages I want to look at these new principles, together with a principle they present as the newest and most Amer- ican of all ...
... legislature divided into 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 ...
... legislature; parties and 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 ...