The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential DemocracyHarvard University Press, 28 Okt 2005 - 400 halaman 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 in 1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. With Republican militias preparing to march on Washington, the House of Representatives deadlocked between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis. Ackerman shows how Thomas Jefferson counted his Federalist rivals out of the House runoff, and how the Federalists threatened to place John Marshall in the presidential chair. Nevertheless, the Constitution managed to survive through acts of statesmanship and luck. |
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... Chase left the Senate chamber , his skilled defense team was not prepared unequivo- cally to endorse his legal view ... Chase's conduct fell squarely within the tra- ditional understanding of this term . On this view , the particular ...
... Chase trial . Rather than inviting Republican senators to cut him down to size , he could have presented himself as part of a smoothly functioning team , declaiming against the egregious Chase in public while Jefferson plied his fellow ...
... Chase trial also suggests the importance of legalistic framing in establishing a credible form of senatorial resistance . When the Constitu- tion of 1787 authorized removal for " high crimes and misdemeanors , " it provided senators ...
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PART ONE The Peoples President | 3 |
Constitutional Brinksmanship | 111 |
Republican Triumph | 142 |
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