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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... Representation, the Number of the Senators, and the Duration of Their Appointments (February 27, 1788) [Madison] A Further View of the Constitution of the Senate in Regard to the Duration of Appointment of Its Members (March 1, 1788) ...
... Representation and 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 ...
... representation because it now seems to us, living in societies where the principle of political representation is deeply entrenched, so obvious a principle as scarcely to need comment. Already in 1787, James Wilson expected to “excite ...
... representation on which the Americans relied was therefore little more than a century old, although it had already come to seem so natural that Noah Webster could describe the doctrine that “the opinions of a majority must give law to ...
... of States into a loose confederacy. The principle of representation frees the people of the need to gather together in an assembly (as in ancient Athens or Rome, or Renaissance Florence) and enables Understanding the Constitution xix.