The Framers' Intentions : The Myth of the Nonpartisan Constitution /

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"Robert Ross addresses a fascinating and unresolved constitutional question: why did political parties emerge so quickly after the Framers designed the Constitution to prevent them? The text of the Constitution is silent on this question. Most scholars of the subject have taken that silence to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Robert E., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution. > 12th Amendment.
United States. > Constitution. > 1st Amendment.
Constitution (United States)
Political parties.
Founding Fathers of the United States.
Constitutional history.
Peres fondateurs des États-Unis.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Constitutional history > United States.
Political parties > United States > History > 19th century.
Political parties > United States > History > 18th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Antipartyism and the Constitution : reassessing the Constitution-against-parties thesis
  • Antiparty constitutionalism and the tradition of political parties
  • Partyism prior to the Constitution
  • Partyism and the First Amendment : organizing opposition and the partisan press
  • Partyism and the presidential selection system : the Twelfth Amendment and political opposition
  • Partyism and organized opposition in elections
  • Partyism and the Electoral College : completing the Twelfth Amendment
  • Partyism, the Elections Clause, and the House of Representatives
  • Partyism and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment : entrenching the two-party Constitution.

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