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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... whole.” In other words, a constitution is something that could in principle be written down, that embodies rational relationships, and that all political agents ought to respect. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–9) ...
... whole. “The representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own choosing,” where the deputies are not bound by the instructions of those they represent, appears to be a peculiarly Anglo-Saxon invention, transported ...
... whole State” as “a doctrine as universally received, as an intuitive truth.” Since this idea depended on the concept of majority decision making, it implied an electorate and a legislature divided into factions or parties. To the old ...
... whole nation is attentive to every step they take, and that the errors they may commit will not only be exposed but aggravated. Spelman thus saw party divisions as a fundamental sign of health in representative government. In Federalist ...
... whole society had a common interest in the advancement of commerce, and that the interests of each trade and profession were inseparable from those of all the others (Essay 12). A proper understanding of political economy was thus to be ...