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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455126603321

Autore

Ackerman Bruce A

Titolo

The failure of the founding fathers [[electronic resource] ] : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy / / Bruce Ackerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-02005-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Classificazione

NO 2300

Disciplina

320.97309034

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - History

Constitutional history - United States

Federal government - United States - History

Separation of powers - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1801-1809

United States Politics and government 1797-1801

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Horatius's Presidential Knot -- Judge Bassett's Protest -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.