The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist PapersMadison House, 1998 - 183 pages Jefferson called The Federalist "the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written," and yet the text is considered lifeless and impenetrable by all but the most persistent readers. The Essential Federalist presents a bold new approach to reading one of the most important documents in American history. By careful selection, organization, and annotation of the essays' most meaningful passages, this book showcases what is central to The Federalist. "If the road over which you will still have to pass," in reading these papers, wrote Publius, "should in some places appear to you tedious or irksome, you will recollect that you are in quest of information on a subject the most momentous which can engage the attention of free people. . . . It will be my aim to remove the obstacles to your progress in as compendious a manner as it can be done, without sacrificing utility to dispatch." Dr. Quentin P. Taylor takes up Publius' challenge by making The Federalist an understandable and usable resource. This book will be essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the roots of American government. |
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... courts to liquidate and fix their meaning and operation . So far as they can by any fair construction be reconciled to each other , reason and law conspire to dictate that this should be done . Where this is impracticable , it becomes a ...
... courts to liquidate and fix their meaning and operation . So far as they can by any fair construction be reconciled to each other , reason and law conspire to dictate that this should be done . Where this is impracticable , it becomes a ...
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... Court in all the enumerated cases of federal cognizance in which it is not to have an original one , without a single expression to confine its operation to the inferior federal courts . The objects of ap- peal , not the tribunals from ...
... Court in all the enumerated cases of federal cognizance in which it is not to have an original one , without a single expression to confine its operation to the inferior federal courts . The objects of ap- peal , not the tribunals from ...
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... Court , may be made to lie from the state courts to district courts of the union . ( No. 82 ) THE RULES OF legal interpretation are rules of common sense , adopted by the courts in the construction of the laws . The true test ...
... Court , may be made to lie from the state courts to district courts of the union . ( No. 82 ) THE RULES OF legal interpretation are rules of common sense , adopted by the courts in the construction of the laws . The true test ...
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