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According to Weisberg, the U.S. adopted a Madisonian representative democracy, with checks and balances to "slow down" popular opinion...
Burns adds a new "Hamiltonian model" to his previously well-elaborated Madisonian and Jeffersonian models for national government. He says that the Hamiltonian President--exemplified by the two Roosevelts--employs heroic-style leadership, intensely personal organization, and the expedient use of power to govern in the face of a disorganized opposition. Though he has a nasty comment or two for some of the historical bases of the Hamiltonian model, he apparently concludes that it is far superior to the limited-government, limited-President Madisonian view (William Howard Taft) or the strictly-majoritarian, party-rule Jeffersonian view (Woodrow Wilson...
...Democratic political philosophy in the first place rejects the absolutes characteristic of the totalitarian Right and the totalitarian Left. It furthermore shuns that political technique intended "to transform one small clique of men into the State." But most crucial of the distinctions marking American-Russian hostility rests with the Madisonian concept disputed by Marx. Douglas elaborates...
...jumped down his throat. William Howard Taft once attacked Beard as a subverter of the republican (small "r") faith. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago has dismissed the Economic Interpretation as a book hardly worth reading. To the Marxists, Beard has replied that he is a Madisonian in his view of the effect of material considerations on history. To those who have attacked him for reducing history to the level of the human belly he has said, in effect: "See here, I called my book an economic interpretation. I have never believed that history is solely...
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