Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy /
First Statement of Responsibility
Bruce Ackerman.
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1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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London :
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
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1 online resource (384 pages)
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: 2005.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The people's president: Introduction: America on the brink. The original misunderstanding. John Marshall for president. Jefferson counts himself in. On the brink. What went right? -- The people and the court: Introduction: constitutional brinksmanship. Federalist counterattack. Republican triumph. Marbury v. Stuart. Presidential purge. Synthesis. Reverberations -- Documents: Horatius's presidential knot. Judge Bassett's protest.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding ofthe 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. The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. --
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22573/ctt1347qq6
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Failure of the founding fathers.
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0674023951
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826.
Marshall, John,1755-1835.
Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826.
Marshall, John,1755-1835.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.-- History.
United States.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Constitutional history-- United States.
Federal government-- United States-- History.
Presidents-- United States-- History.
Separation of powers-- United States-- History.
Constitutional history.
Federal government.
HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
Politics and government
Presidents.
Separation of powers.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Politics and government, 1797-1801.
United States, Politics and government, 1801-1809.