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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... importance. It will continue to be relevant as long as powers are separated, elections held, and constitutions written or amended. More than two centuries later, however, our world is very Reading the Federalist xxxvii.
... Amendment of 1868 did the process begin whereby the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights became rights that could be claimed against the governments of the states. Previously, rights against the state governments depended on the ...
... Amendment, often before refused, and at last made by an Erasure, after the Engrossment upon Parchment, of the word forty, and inserting thirty, in the Third Clause of the Second Section of the First Article. (Mason) 1 Law as tedious ...
... so solemnly sworn to support cannot legally be altered but by a recommenda- tion of the council of censors, who alone are authorized to propose alterations and amendments, and even these must be published at 6 The Anti-Federalists.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay David Wootton. alterations and amendments, and even these must be published at least six months, for the consideration of the people.—The proposed system of government for the United States, if ...