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The failure of the founding fathers [electronic resource] : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy / Bruce Ackerman.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Ackerman, Bruce A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Marshall, John, > 1755-1835.
United States. > Supreme Court > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1801-1809.
United States > Politics and government > 1797-1801.
Presidents > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Federal government > United States > History.
Separation of powers > United States > History.
United States. > Supreme Court.
Constitutional history.
Federal government.
Politics and government.
Presidents.
Separation of powers.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1: The people's president
  • American on the brink
  • The original misunderstanding
  • John Marshall for president
  • Jefferson counts himself in
  • On the brink
  • What went right?
  • 2: The people and the court
  • Constitutional brinksmanship
  • Federalist counterattack
  • Republican triumph
  • Marbury v. Stuart
  • Presidential purge
  • Synthesis
  • Reverberations
  • Documents: Horatius's presidential knot
  • Judge Bassett's protest.

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