Our Federalist constitution
Subtitle: the founders' expectations and contemporary American government
By: Michael J. Faber
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781593324384
Description: "Using specific predictions made by Federalists and Anti-Federalists during the debate over ratification, this work engages in an examination of contemporary American politics. Many of the issues which were closely contested in this debate continue to bedevil contemporary political actors; the Constitution, in essence, is still in debate. By looking at the accuracy of Federalist and Anti-Federalist predictions in the development of American institutions, we can see whether we have departed from the intentions of the founders"--Preface, p. ix.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The founding and contemporary institutions; title: Representation and the House; title: Stability and the Senate; title: Leadership and the presidency; title: Judicial review and the Supreme Court; title: Federalism and consolidation.