James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Contributions in Legal Studies)
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“Morgan provides a comprehensive, consistent, and unified analysis of Madison's political philosophy using Madison's views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the focus. Morgan looks at all that Madison wrote on these topics before, during, and after the adoption of the Constitution. He argues that Madison's constitutional philosophy was shaped by his view that there was an inherent conflict between limited government and accountability on the one hand, and the tendency of all to exercise autonomous, unrestricted power. This conflict is most evident in the area of foreign relations and war-making. His second thesis is that Madison was propelled to become a constitutional reformer not by any desire to curb democracy but by the need to preserve both the union and republican government. Morgan emphasizes the impact of the American experience in shaping Madison's thought as well as its eclectic character. In doing so he runs counter to Garry Wills's Inventing America and Paul Eidelberg's The Philosophy of the American Constitution (1986). They see Madison through the eyes of the Scottish Enlightenment or classical political philosophy. On this point his work complements that of Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seclorum and Donald Lutz's.”–
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"Morgan provides a comprehensive, consistent, and unified analysis of Madison's political philosophy using Madison's views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the focus. Morgan looks at all that Madison wrote on these topics before, during, and after the adoption of the Constitution. He argues that Madison's constitutional philosophy was shaped by his view that there was an inherent conflict between limited government and accountability on the one hand, and the tendency of all to exercise autonomous, unrestricted power. . . . His second thesis is that Madison was propelled to become a constitutional reformer not by any desire to curb democracy but by the need to preserve both the union and republican government. Morgan emphasizes the impact of the American experience in shaping Madison's thought as well as its eclectic character." Choice
James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Contributions in Legal Studies)
James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Contributions in Legal Studies),Robert J. Morgan,Greenwood Press,0313263949,1751-1836,1st-10th Amendments,Civil Procedure,Constitution,Constitution.,Constitutional history,General,Law,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Madison, James,,U.S. Constitutional History,United States,United States.,Law / General,Madison, James,Views on the Constitution
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