Failure of the Founding Fathers - Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy

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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Ackerman, Bruce A. Ackerman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780674023956
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02395-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political leaders and leadership