The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist PapersHackett Publishing, 2003 M09 15 - 392 páginas 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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... Congress assembled” (the voice of the Articles of Confederation), but of “We the People. . . .” The other was the voice not of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, but of an anonymous spokesperson for this new constitutional idea, a featureless ...
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay David Wootton. Congress called under the new Constitution on March 4, 1789. We take revolutions, and the principles to which they lay claim—such as popular sovereignty and the right of a new ...
... Congress. The legislature was assumed to have no need for a veto over the actions of the executive because it had both the power of impeachment and the power to refuse taxation. have the same disposition toward the General Government ...
... Congress' being curtailed to a list of enumerated powers, and by the specific protection of slavery for a limited period. In addition, the Senate and President were strengthened by giving each of them an independent claim to be ...
... Congress and of the Continental Congress. His speeches were published in The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New York (1788). The “Letters of Cato” appeared in the New York Journal between September 1787 and ...