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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... the Convention Must Have Experienced in the Formation of a Proper Plan (January 11, 1788) [Madison] 147 152 158 162 167 No. 12: 174 179 183 No. 16: 190 195 199 203 207 211 214 219 No. 39: No. 47: No. 48: No. 49: No. 51: vi Contents.
... proper understanding of political economy was thus to be the precondition for enlightened legislation by an intellectual and social elite. The new political economy was also a precondition for the Federalist's conviction that the ...
... proper separation of powers: this separation was thus a more recent construction. Where powers were separated, a new type of liberty was born. The balance of powers in ancient republics protected the community as a whole from tyranny ...
... proper Information in the Legislature, or inspire Confidence in the People: the Laws will therefore be generally made by Men little concerned in, and unacquainted with their Effects and Consequences.1 The Senate have the Power of ...
... proper Information and Advice; and will generally be directed by Minions and Favorites—or He will become a Tool to the Sen- ate—or a Council of State will grow out of the principal Officers of the great Departments; the worst and most ...