The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy by Bruce A. Ackerman

The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy

Bruce A. Ackerman

384 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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