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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... magistrates, estates, city councils. In Calvinist Scotland the same assumptions shaped the arguments of monarchomach (i.e., king-killing) theorists such as George Buchanan. (Buchanan wrote Of the Powers of the Crown in Scotland [1579] ...
... magistrates in free countries was so quali- fied, and so divided into different channels, and committed to the discretion of so many different men, with different interests and views, that the majority of them could seldom or never find ...
... Magistrate; and long continued Ses- sions of the Senate would in a great Measure have been prevented. From this fatal Defect of a constitutional Council has arisen the improper Power of the Senate, in the Appointment of public Officers ...
... magistrates of the federal government or others. 6. That the people have a right to the freedom of speech, of writing and publishing their sentiments, therefore, the freedom of the press shall not be restrained by any law of the United ...
... magistrates, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.” “Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not ...