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The Failure of the Founding Fathers

Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy

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ISBN 9780674023956

Publication Date: 04/30/2007

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400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

4 line illustrations

Belknap Press

World

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  • I. 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?
  • II. 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
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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