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The failure of the founding fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy

Title: The failure of the founding fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy / Bruce Ackerman.
Author: Ackerman, Bruce A.
Publication: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2005.

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384 p.; 25 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1: The people's president -- American on the brink -- The original misunderstanding -- John Marshall for president -- Jefferson counts himself in -- On the brink -- What went right? -- 2: The people and the court -- Constitutional brinksmanship -- Federalist counterattack -- Republican triumph -- Marbury v. Stuart -- Presidential purge -- Synthesis -- Reverberations -- Documents: Horatius's presidential knot -- Judge Bassett's protest.

Call Number

IBM 05-6713

ISBN

0674018664 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005047034

OCLC

58919429

Author

Ackerman, Bruce A.

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

IBM 05-6713

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