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The Failure of the Founding Fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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