Word: federalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third-year law student, Paul Cellupica,president of the Harvard Federalist Society, aconservative student group at the Law School, saidthat Bok's decision would settle the turmoil oncampus...
Amidst chocolate chips, apple cider and Samuel Adams beer, about five students each week meet with Mather House Tutor Richard John '81 to debate Constitutional issues and Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments...
...rights, then, would simply grant rights to the people which they already possessed. It would "contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted," Hamilton wrote, harping on the irony of the situation. Unfortunately, such double protection might do more harm than good, as Hamilton pointed out in The Federalist #84. "Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" he wrote. Such a declaration could only afford overzealous rulers "a colorable pretext to claim more [powers] than were granted...
Despite such hip-shooting urgency, The Federalist proved so penetrating an explication of the Constitution that 50 years later Alexis de Tocqueville described it as a tour de force that "ought to be familiar to the statesmen of all countries." Almost 140 years after that, Historian Marvin Meyers, now retired from Brandeis University, called it the "most profound commentary on the original nature of the American regime, and the best single guide to the political mind of the founders...
...Taken in bulk, The Federalist can be heavy going for the lay reader, with its sometimes intricate marshaling of closely reasoned arguments. Madison rated it "admissible as a School book if any will be that goes so much into detail." But the brilliance of the best individual essays remains undiminished. Madison's own masterly "Federalist No. 10," for example, took issue with the received wisdom of his day that the Government would be threatened by the mutually hostile factions with which a sprawling America appeared dangerously overloaded. By their very number and variety, Madison argued, the factions would support...