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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... supreme 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 ...
... Supreme Court might play in interpreting and defending the Constitution. A recognition of the impor- tance of this topic was something they took from the debates, not something they brought to them. We can date their new grasp of the ...
... Supreme Court remained long after the Constitution was adopted. The Philadelphia Convention had done much more than had been expected of it. It had not simply proposed some additional powers for the Confederation Congress, but had ...
... of the Constitution, and it is to the anti-Federalists rather than the Federalists that one should look for the principles of the new Federalism. (the question of the powers of the Supreme Court coming xxxvi Introduction.
... Supreme Court coming to the fore) and the political situation changed (eight states had already ratified the Constitution by the time the final installment was published); it was written anonymously; and it was written not to defend ...