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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... Liberty (November 20, 1787) [Hamilton] The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (November 21, 1787) [Hamilton] The Same Subject Continued (November 22, 1787) [Madison] The Utility of the Union in ...
... liberty. Women too were excluded from this “we,” but that, unlike the exclusion of male slaves, did not strike any of its authors as a fundamental problem; it did not even represent an obstacle to be overcome in drafting an acceptable ...
... liberty.) The Restoration in 1660 marked England's return to an unwritten constitution, and yet by the mid-eighteenth century we find Bolingbroke writing about Britain's Constitution as if it was something far more com- plicated than ...
... liberty.” This is so exact a summary of Spelman, who also held that the extinction of party must lead to the extinction of liberty, that one can reasonably suspect a direct influence. The writings of the anti-Federalists contain no ...
... liberty was maximized. For Montesquieu the nearest exam- ple, in practice, of such a constitution was Britain's (“The British Constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry,” said Madison) ...