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

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Main Author: Ackerman, Bruce A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.