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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... exercise of the chief magistracy, and the administration of the government.” The idea of an independent judiciary had yet to be clearly formulated. Although real power lay in the hands of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, the ...
... exercise some control over their representatives through election, but elections provided no protection for the rights of minorities. So in order to limit the power of the government, one power had to be set against another. Experience ...
... exercising their judgment. In many of the counties the people did not attend the elections as they had not an opportunity of judging of the plan. Others did not consider themselves bound by the call of a set of men who assembled at the ...
... exercise of sovereignty, but by the suffrages of the people, which are their will; now the sovereign's will is the sovereign himself; the laws therefore, which establish the right of suffrage, are fundamental to this government. In fact ...
... exercise, that this alone would be amply sufficient to annihilate the state governments, and swallow them up in the grand vortex of gen- eral empire. The judicial powers vested in Congress are also so various and extensive, that by ...