The Failure of the Founding Fathers
Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
Published on 1. July 2009
400 pages
978-0-674-02005-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book revisits the electoral college crisis of 1800, offering a new understanding of the early plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court struggling to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Ackerman shows how the early court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the Constitution.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02005-4 (9780674020054)
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Bruce Ackerman
The Failure of the Founding Fathers
Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
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04/2007
The Belknap Press
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Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University.
Content
CONTENTS PART ONE The People's President Introduction: America on the Brink 1. The Original Misunderstanding 2. John Marshall for President 3. Jefferson Counts Himself In 4. On the Brink 5. What Went Right? PART TWO The People and the Court Introduction: Constitutional Brinksmanship 6. Federalist Counterattack 7. Republican Triumph 8. Marbury v. Stuart 9. Presidential Purge 10. Synthesis 11. Reverberations DOCUMENTS Horatius's Presidential Knot Judge Bassett's Protest Notes Acknowledgments Index
