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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... republic, but could at best gather a number 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 ...
... republic, the greater the beneficial consequences. In the first place, where representatives have to be chosen by large numbers of people, only candidates who have outstanding qualities are likely to be successful. Madison means to say ...
... republic is necessarily going to be one with diverse interest groups, reflecting the society's increased geographical and economic diversity (the point is repeated in Essay 51). Here Madison was reversing what Montesquieu had believed ...
... Republic, by which I mean a Government in which the scheme of representation takes place . . .”). This definition plays on an ambiguity in the term republic. The Latin res publica means simply “public thing,” often translated as ...
... republic and monarchy as mutually exclusive terms—no republic could have a king. Madison's definition is delicately ambiguous, bridging two competing definitions of a republic: the claim that representation ensures good government, and ...