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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... Particular Causes Enumerated (November 17, 1787) [Hamilton] The Effects of Internal War in Producing Standing Armies and Other Institutions Unfriendly to Liberty (November 20, 1787) [Hamilton] The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard ...
... particular 2. Paine, however, did not share the concern with limiting and separating powers that formed an important strand within the radical tradition. communities, such as Athens. For Aristotle, the study of constitutions ...
... particular constitutional arrangement. Two thousand years later we find, at last, the idea of a written constitution. (One might look for precursors of this idea outside politics, in the regulations governing organizations such as the ...
... particular, and it is thus important that the Federalist wholeheartedly embraces the principle of opposition (if not always the principle of party conflict). Opposition is a necessary consequence of representation, but it is not only ...
... particular arguments with Madison and with Hamilton, and there can be no doubt that each brought to the enterprise his own preoccupations (in Madison's case, a commitment to pluralism; in Hamilton's, a particular concern with the powers ...