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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... opinions of a majority must give law to the whole State” as “a doctrine as universally received, as an intuitive truth.” Since this idea depended on the concept of majority decision making, it implied an electorate and a legislature ...
... opinions and enabled them to turn themselves into a mouthpiece for the infant Constitution. To speak on behalf of the Constitution was not to speak the language of liberty as that language had traditionally been understood. In the ...
... opinion of foreign nations. The Congress could make treaties of commerce, but could not enforce the observance of them. We were suffering from the restrictions of foreign nations, who had shackled our commerce, while we were unable to ...
... opinion, at all binding on the people. The election for members of the convention was held at so early a period and the want of information was so great, that some of us did not know of it until after it was over, and we have reason to ...
... opinion, would be injurious to you, in the best manner we were able; and closed our arguments by offering the following propositions to the convention. 1. The right of conscience shall be held inviolable; and neither the leg- islative ...