The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist PapersHackett Publishing, 15. sep. 2003 - 392 sider 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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... Bill of Rights (December 15, 1791) Index 289 301 310 317 317 324 326 337 339 Introduction Understanding the Constitution Two texts, a decade apart. One viii Contents.
... bill of rights. The enterprise of writing and rewriting constitutions necessarily encouraged a comparative study of constitutions. Adams assembled much of the material relevant to such an enterprise in his three-volume Defense of the ...
... Bill of Rights of 1689 provided no guarantee of judicial independence. death wholesale), who made no secret of their political allegiances, xxvi Introduction.
... Bill of Rights would prove in the debate over ratification. They also did not foresee—as others did, even in their contributions to the debates at the Convention—the role the Supreme Court might play in interpreting and defending the ...
... Bill of Rights, for example, was simply a statute; if one Parlia- ment had introduced it, another could repeal it. The people, of course, could exercise some control over their representatives through election, but elections provided no ...
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