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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... spirit that a common interest in economic growth could be identified by both the electors and their representatives. Madison makes a second key argument in Federalist 10. An enlarged republic is necessarily going to be one with diverse ...
... Spirit of the Laws, first published in French in 1748. Montesquieu was important as the founder of the science of comparative politics and as someone who had written at length on republicanism (arguing that it was a political sys- tem ...
... Spirit of the Laws three points need to be made. The first is that Montesquieu, like Polybius, saw in ancient Sparta and Rome examples of governments in which different institutions were balanced against each other, the result being a ...
... spirit becoming freemen, and being desirous that you might know the principles which actuated our conduct, and being prohibited from inserting our reasons of dissent on the minutes of the convention, we have subjoined them for your ...
... spirit of the people shall be gradually broken; when the general government shall be firmly established, and when a numerous standing army shall render opposition vain, the Congress may complete the system of despotism, in renouncing ...