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973538
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b727908
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Ackerman, Bruce A.
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| Title & Author
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The failure of the founding fathers : : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy /\ Bruce Ackerman.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. ;London :: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, 2007.
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (384 pages)
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| ISBN
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0674020057
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: 9780674020054
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2005.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The people's president: Introduction: America on the brink. The original misunderstanding. John Marshall for president. Jefferson counts himself in. On the brink. What went right? -- The people and the court: Introduction: 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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Describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding ofthe early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Through close studies of two Supreme Court cases, Ackerman shows how the court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic. 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 in1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. --
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Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826.
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Marshall, John,1755-1835.
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Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826.
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Marshall, John,1755-1835.
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United States.-- History.
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United States.
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Constitutional history-- United States.
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Federal government-- United States-- History.
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Presidents-- United States-- History.
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Separation of powers-- United States-- History.
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Constitutional history.
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Federal government.
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HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
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Politics and government
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Presidents.
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Separation of powers.
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United States, Politics and government, 1797-1801.
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United States, Politics and government, 1801-1809.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.97309034
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| LC Classification
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E331.A15 2007eb
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