Ebook: The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
Author: Bruce Ackerman
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Language: English
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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.
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