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Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment

Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0739121200
ISBN13: 9780739121207
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.99 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Political Theory of a Compound Republic examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in theFederalist. Through meticulous textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism-the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton-are revealed as thirteen propositions broadly applicable to any effort to design the institutions of a self-governing polity. The final chapters, expanded and revised by Vincent Ostrom and Barbara Allen, turn to the American experiment in constitutional choice at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In this revised edition, Ostrom and Allen consider the continuing story of federal institutional development by focusing on two current concerns: the imperial presidency and the ideal of universal human rights.

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