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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... [Noah Webster], An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (October 17, 1787) 110 The Federalist 140 No. 1: Introduction (October 27, 1787) [Hamilton] 140 No. 2: Concerning the Dangers from Foreign Force and ...
... Noah Webster had to argue at length in support of bicameralism, a proposal that was not contentious elsewhere.) All those gathered at Philadelphia, therefore, were familiar with a range of models of constitutional design, and were ...
... Noah Webster could describe the doctrine that “the opinions of a majority must give law to the whole State” as “a doctrine as universally received, as an intuitive truth.” Since this idea depended on the concept of majority decision ...
... (Noah Webster, who thought that English judges had been independent “for many centuries,” was simply mistaken.) For Montesquieu, the principle of jury trial was central to English liberty. This principle, along with the separation of ...
... Noah Webster. For our immediate purposes, de Lolme's most important argument is that in modern political systems it is the power of the legislature, not the executive, that is the greatest threat to the liberty and security of ...