New Federalist papers
Subtitle: essays in defense of the Constitution
By: Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, Kathleen M. Sullivan.
Contributors: Polsby, Nelson W.; Sullivan, Kathleen M., 1955-
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Democracy -- United States; Representative government and representation -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Description: New Federalist Papers brings together three prominent and highly visible constitutional experts - Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, and Kathleen M. Sullivan - to address the threats posed by current challenges to the American Constitution and defend the representative democracy put in place by its framers.

Like Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, the authors of New Federalist Papers see danger in the effort to diminish and relocate federal power at the same time that they recognize the importance of the market, of state and local governments, and of the many other institutions on which a healthy society depends.

They aim to stimulate debate at a time when there is much at stake, recognizing that it is the task of public discourse to bring about a reasoned consideration of such issues as gun control, term limits, flag burning, the balanced-budget amendment, campaign finance reform, and the attempt to require a "supermajority" in Congress for the passage of controversial legislation.
Notes: "A Twentieth Century Fund book."
Table of contents: title: The contemporary relevance of The federalist / Kathleen M. Sullivan; title: The assault on government ; The challenge to deliberative democracy / Alan Brinkley; title: On the distinctiveness of the American political system ; The American party system ; The presidential campaign, British style ; Money in presidential campaigns / Nelson W. Polsby; title: Campaign finance reform : a response to Nelson W. Polsby / Alan Brinkley; title: What's wrong with constitutional amendments? / Kathleen M. Sullivan; title: Term limits / Nelson W. Polsby; title: Democracy and the federal budget / Kathleen M. Sullivan; title: The item veto / Nelson W. Polsby; title: Liberty and community / Alan Brinkley; title: Representation of racial minorities ; The balance of power between the federal government and the states / Kathleen M. Sullivan; title: Relegitimizing government ; The privitazation of public discourse / Alan Brinkley; title: The role of the media in representative government / Kathleen M. Sullivan; title: Constitutional angst : does American democracy work? / Nelson W. Polsby.