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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... party, formed to oppose Charles II and James II) and by others prepared to oppose the British government. The ... party into a party of big government and high taxation. It was this newly powerful state that sought to extend taxation to ...
... Party Politics In Federalist 9, the authors of the Federalist provide a list of principles unknown (or, at best, imperfectly known) to the ancients, but whose importance, they assert, is now well understood: “the regular distribution ...
... party conflict, and during the period of “the rage of party,” 1688 to 1715, English politics was conducted on the basis of vigorous electioneering. For fifty years after 1715, the long Whig ascendancy muffled party conflict, and ...
... parties. To the old way of thinking, factions were anathema: There existed one common good, on which all virtuous and ... party are before the nineteenth century. Machiavelli had taken it for granted that politics involved conflicting ...
... parties,” and that party conflict is not an effect but a precondition of liberty. The cities of ancient Greece were divided into supporters of aristocracy and democracy, but [I]t was not the existence of the two parties I have mentioned ...