The failure of the founding fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy / Bruce Ackerman.
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Cambridge, MA :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE : 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?
- PART TWO : THE PEOPLE AND THE COURT: Constitutional brinksmanship
- Federalist counterattack
- Republican triumph
- Marbury v. Stuart
- Presidential purge
- Synthesis
- Reverberations
- PART THREE : DOCUMENTS: Horatius's presidential knot
- Judge Bassett's protest.