The Failure of the Founding Fathers : : Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy / / Bruce ACKERMAN.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: ACKERMAN, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Through close studies of two Supreme Court cases, Ackerman shows how the court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE: The People's President -- Introduction: America on the Brink -- 1. The Original Misunderstanding -- 2. John Marshall for President -- 3. Jefferson Counts Himself In -- 4. On the Brink -- 5. What Went Right? -- PART TWO: The People and the Court -- Introduction: Constitutional Brinksmanship -- 6. Federalist Counterattack -- 7. Republican Triumph -- 8. Marbury v. Stuart -- 9. Presidential Purge -- 10. Synthesis -- 11. Reverberations -- DOCUMENTS: Horatius's Presidential Knot Judge Bassett's Protest -- Horatius's Presidential Knot -- Judge Bassett's Protest -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX