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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... nature,” with the opportunity to establish a new type of political authority from first principles. This is what we now call the doctrine of “popular sovereignty,” and its emergence marks the beginning of the tran- sition, in the new ...
... natural did it seem to Americans. “One thing is very certain,” says Wilson, and that is “that the doctrine of ... nature of the choice. Until the late seventeenth century, elections in England were rarely contested; instead, the ...
... nature of politics within a federal system. Second, it is often overlooked that Madison (in Federalist 50) adopts a position identical to Spelman's on the healthiness of party divisions. He is discussing party conflict in Pennsylvania ...
... nature of the problem was to be clarified during the Ratification debate, but considerable uncertainty with regard to the powers of the Supreme Court remained long after the Constitution was adopted. The Philadelphia Convention had done ...
... nature—approved by Hamilton. In 1818 a further edition, edited by Jacob Gideon, appeared with corrections by Madison, and with Madison's identification of the author of each essay. (The result has been considerable textual confusion: At ...