The Failure of the Founding Fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy / Bruce ACKERMAN.

9780674020054

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]

©2005

English

In English.

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10.4159/9780674020054 doi

E331 -- A15 2005eb

NO 2300

320.97309034

Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Through close studies of two Supreme Court cases, Ackerman shows how the court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic.

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