The Federalist PapersWritten at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. Acclaimed by Thomas Jefferson as 'the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written', The Federalist Papers make a powerful case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and for a Constitution that has endured largely unchanged for two hundred years. |
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... CONFEDERATION IN RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGISLATION FOR THE STATES IN THEIR COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES XVI THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED IN RELATION TO THE SAME PRINCIPLE XVII THE SUBJECT CONTINUED AND ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES TO SHOW THE ...
... CONFEDERATION IN RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGISLATION FOR THE STATES IN THEIR COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES XVI THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED IN RELATION TO THE SAME PRINCIPLE XVII THE SUBJECT CONTINUED AND ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES TO SHOW THE ...
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... Confederation. After 1776 there would indeed be new men, quite humble men in many cases, who came to rule in America. It was to a great extent the power of these new men and the leveling policies they pursued in their base of strength ...
... Confederation. After 1776 there would indeed be new men, quite humble men in many cases, who came to rule in America. It was to a great extent the power of these new men and the leveling policies they pursued in their base of strength ...
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... Confederation. The bitterness of the debate over ratification stemmed, in part, from the Constitution's unabashed radicalism, its radical departure from virtually every aspect of American politics as practiced in America's first ten ...
... Confederation. The bitterness of the debate over ratification stemmed, in part, from the Constitution's unabashed radicalism, its radical departure from virtually every aspect of American politics as practiced in America's first ten ...
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... Confederation this passion alone seemed to actuate us, and we appear to have had no other view than to secure ourselves from despotism. The object certainly was a valuable one, and deserved our utmost attention; but Sir, there is ...
... Confederation this passion alone seemed to actuate us, and we appear to have had no other view than to secure ourselves from despotism. The object certainly was a valuable one, and deserved our utmost attention; but Sir, there is ...
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... Confederation, which were drafted in 1776 and passed by the Continental Congress in 1777. Adopted by all the newly independent states—Maryland being the last in 1781—the Articles, America's first constitution, remained operative until ...
... Confederation, which were drafted in 1776 and passed by the Continental Congress in 1777. Adopted by all the newly independent states—Maryland being the last in 1781—the Articles, America's first constitution, remained operative until ...
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