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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... Pennsylvania Convention (December 18, 1787) 3 Speech of Patrick Henry before the Virginia Ratifying Convention (June 5, 1788) 25 Speeches of Melancton Smith before the New York Ratifying Convention (June 20, 21, 23, 1788) 42 Letters of ...
... (Pennsylvania's is the most striking example) tended to transfer the powers of the royal governor to representative assemblies whose power was virtually unlimited. Within a few years, however, the pendulum had begun to swing the other ...
... Pennsylvania. (In Pennsylvania, defenders of the Constitution such as 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 ...
... Pennsylvania, a state “violently heated and distracted by the rage of party.” (Webster concurred: “The whole state is split into parties.”) Conventionally, such a condition was to be deplored. Madison, however, regards it as positively ...
... Pennsylvania to Their Constituents” was published in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser on December 18, 1787 and was widely reprinted. Samuel Bryan, though not himself a member of the Pennsylva- nia Convention, is thought to ...