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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... ideas it sought to embody as practical institutions as they developed over the previous century and more. We need to ... idea, a featureless cipher through whom the Constitution speaks—the voice of “Publius.” Our task now is to discover ...
... idea of a written constitution. (One might look for precursors of this idea outside politics, in the regulations governing organizations such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, or the statutes of medieval universities.) The earliest ...
... idea of any other kinds of governments than the three simple forms design[at]ed by the epithets, monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical,” and he could safely assume that his listeners were better informed. Above all, his ...
... idea that majorities need to be prevented from acting tyrannically.) The idea of representation on which the Americans relied was therefore little more than a century old, although it had already come to seem so natural that Noah ...
... idea of the vir- tuous ruler a modern version of Plato's philosopher-king. On virtue Madison was much more explicit than he was on the subject of class. “The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be . . . to obtain for ...