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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... Means of Giving Efficacy in Practice to That Maxim (February 1, 1788) [Madison] The Same Subject Continued with the Same View (February 2, 1788) [Madison] The Same Subject Continued with the Same View and Concluded (February 6, 1788) ...
... mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason . . . that compose the general sys- tem according to which the community hath ...
... means to say that representation in an enlarged republic will necessarily have an elitist character. How is one to interpret the elitism of the Federalist? There is no doubt that many of those who participated in constitutional reform ...
... mean a Government in which the scheme of representation takes place . . .”). This definition plays on an ambiguity in the term republic. The Latin res publica means simply “public thing,” often translated as commonwealth. Aristotle had ...
... means to this end. Although Montesquieu writes of the distribution rather than the separation of powers, it was an easy step to derive a doctrine of the separation of powers from his argument because he evidently thinks of them as ...