The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton PDF
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The EffectiveRepublic The Effective Republic Administration and Constitution in the Thought ofAlexanderHamilton Harvey Flaumenhaft DukeUniversityPress DurhamandLondon1992 ©1992DukeUniversityPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper00 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData appearonthelastprintedpageofthisbook. This book isdedicated tomymother, Fay Flaumenhaft, andtothememory ofmyfather, LouisFlaumenhaft, andofmy teacher, Herbert]. Storing Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Principles 7 PartOne: PopularRepresentation II TheCharacteristicSpiritofSociety 15 III TheNaturalRightsofMankind 34 IV TheStructuralFoundationofGovernment 41 V ThePartitionofPower 61 PartTwo: EfficaciousAdministration VI AdministrativeEfficacy 69 VII Unity 82 VIII UnityandDuration 99 IX Duration 133 X RepublicanConstitution 158 PartThree: ConstitutionalIntegrity XI Independent]udgment 205 XII Partisanship,Partiality,andPartsofGovernment 225 XIII Partisanship,Partiality,andPopularLiberty 241 XIV Returnto FirstPrinciples 250 Conclusion 261 Notes 269 Index 311 Acknowledgments Agenerous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities sup portedmycompletionofthefinalversionofthisbook. Adaptations of parts of an earlier version appeared in the following publications: Review of Gerald Stourzh's Alexander Hamilton and the Idea ofRepublican Government, in TheAmericanPolitical ScienceReview67 (June1973): 637- 39; "AlexanderHamiltonontheFoundationofGoodGovernment,"ThePolitical ScienceReviewer6 (BicentennialIssue: Fall1976):143-214; "Hamilton'sAdministrativeRepublicand theAmericanPresidency,"in The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, edited byJoseph M. Bessette and JeffreyTulis (BatonRouge: LouisianaStateUniversityPress,1981), pp. 65- 112; "AmericanismAbroad," in Constitutionalism in Perspective, edited bySarah BaumgartnerThurow (Lanham, Md.: University Press ofAmerica, 1988), PP·240-51. I am grateful for permission to reprint from those publications. The followingpapersalsopresentedearlierversionsofpartsofthisbook: "AlexanderHamiltonontheAdministrationofLiberty,"presentedtoapanel on"AmericanLiberty: The ProblematicCharacterofaFoundingConcept," at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, MountPocono,Pennsylvania,10-12November1977; "The Administrative Republic ofAlexanderHamilton," presented to acon-
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