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Il y a 1 jour · In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton advocated the doctrine of a written document held as a superior enactment of the people. "A limited constitution can be preserved in practice no other way" than through courts which can declare void any legislation contrary to the Constitution. The preservation of the people's authority over legislatures rests "particularly with judges."
Il y a 4 jours · Introduction. In the second of sixteen essays that he published in the New York Journal, the prominent New York Antifederalist, Brutus (thought by some to be Melancton Smith, an experienced New York politician) concurred with the arguments of George Mason and Richard Henry Lee ( Objections at the Constitutional Convention (1787 ...
Il y a 5 jours · The short answer is no. Though all The Federalist Papers are worth reading, there are some whose influence and relevance outpaces the rest. Here I’ll offer a brief appetizer to what many...
Il y a 5 jours · Alexander Hamilton was a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), a major author of the Federalist papers, and the first secretary of the treasury of the United States (1789–95). He argued in favour of a strong central government for the new United States.
Il y a 5 jours · The Brearly Committee, comprising Gilman, King, Sherman, Brearly, Gouverneur Morris, Dickinson, Carroll, Madison, Williamson, Butler, and Baldwin, proposed the adoption of an Electoral College in which both the people and the states were represented in the election of the president.
Il y a 19 heures · In fact, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 77 that presidents are “vulnerable to prosecution in the common course of law.” Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution says ...
Il y a 2 jours · Another Anti-Federalist author, using the pen name Brutus, challenged the necessity and prudence of a standing army. “Brutus No. 10” warns: “As standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and have often been the means of overturning the best constitutions of government, no standing army, or troops of any description whatsoever, shall be raised or kept up by the legislature ...
