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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... legislative authority” is a phrase dating from 1642; “legislative power” from 1651 (in Hobbes' Leviathan); “the legislature” dates from 1676; “executive power” is a phrase from 1649, while the term “the executive” is a product of the ...
... legislative, executive, and judicial powers could one both discuss how people might rule themselves, and ask how the power of government could be limited by being separated into distinct, independent powers. The culture of both the ...
... legislative authority” and the rest of government, but it lumped together “the exercise of the chief magistracy, and the administration of the government.” The idea of an independent judiciary had yet to be clearly formulated. Although ...
... legislative, executive, and judiciary. Representation and Party Politics In Federalist 9, the authors of the Federalist provide a list of principles unknown (or, at best, imperfectly known) to the ancients, but whose importance, they ...
... legislative balances and checks—the institution of courts composed of judges, holding their offices during good behavior—the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election—these are . . . wholly new ...