Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander Hamilton
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2018-08-20
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1528785878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Author: Vincent Ostrom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780472084562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers the social requirements for a thriving democracy
Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780791475966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.
Author: Robert F. Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780195347975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk--among politicians, academics, and jurists--of "coups d'etat," of culture wars, of confederation, of constitutional breakdown? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Nagel proposes a surprising znswer: that anxiety about national unity is caused by centralization itself. Moreover, he proposes that this anxiety has dangerous cultural consequences that are, in an implosive cycle, pushing the country toward ever greater centralization. Carefully examining recent landmark Supreme Court cases that protect states' rights, Nagel argues that the federal judiciary is not leading and is not likely to lead a revival of the complex system called federalism. A robust version of federalism requires appreciation for political conflict and respect for disagreement about constitutional meaning, both values that are deeply antithetical to the Court's function. That so many believe this most centralized of our Nation's institutions is protecting, even overprotecting, state power is itself a sign of the depletion of those understandings necessary to sustain the federal system. Instead of a support for federalism, Nagel finds a commitment to radical nationalism throughout the constitutional law establishment. He traces this commitment to traditionally American traits like perfectionism, optimism, individualism, and legalism. Under modern conditions of centralization, these attractive traits are leading to unattractive social consequences, including tolerance, fearfulness, utopianism, and deceptiveness. They are degrading our political discourse. All this encourages further centralization and further cultural deterioration. This book puts the major federalism decisions within the framework of the Court's overall record, including its record on individual rights in areas like abortion, homosexuality, and school desegregation. And, giving special attention to public debate over privacy and impeachment, it places modern constitutional law in the context of political discourse more generally.
Author: Domestic Policy Council (U.S.). Working Group on Federalism
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 106
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 26
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