The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential DemocracyHarvard University Press, 2005 M10 28 - 384 páginas The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in 1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. With Republican militias preparing to march on Washington, the House of Representatives deadlocked between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis. Ackerman shows how Thomas Jefferson counted his Federalist rivals out of the House runoff, and how the Federalists threatened to place John Marshall in the presidential chair. Nevertheless, the Constitution managed to survive through acts of statesmanship and luck. |
Contenido
INTRODUCTION America on the Brink | 3 |
The Original Misunderstanding | 16 |
John Marshall for President | 36 |
Jefferson Counts Himself In | 55 |
On the Brink | 77 |
What Went Right? | 93 |
PART TWO The People and the Court | 109 |
INTRODUCTION Constitutional Brinksmanship | 111 |
Presidential Purge | 199 |
Synthesis | 224 |
Reverberations | 245 |
DOCUMENTS | 267 |
Horatiuss Presidential Knot | 269 |
Judge Bassetts Protest | 276 |
NOTES | 298 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 367 |
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