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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Federalist"”.
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The application of federalist theories in EU treaties
… between the building of the European Union and federalist theories specifically in terms of the political union that was established as a result of fundamental treaty development. Due to this, an in-depth analysis of three major treaties will be brought forward, seeking to answer the one main …
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Why we need to talk about preferences: A federalist proposal
This doctoral thesis argues that, contrary to the appearances of unity, economists are highly disunified in their understanding of central concepts of choice- and game theory, namely, preferences and beliefs. Even though 'preference' is arguably the most central concept in economics and the …
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Unraveling Anti-Federalist Ideology through a Conceptual Framework of Natural Rights
… a detailed telling of the history of the Anti-Federalist movement. At the time, the United States was undergoing a huge change. The entire government was in the process of being replaced with a fundamentally different one. Dismantling all pre-existing state and local governments, and forming …
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The Jay Treaty and the Federalist Approach to Anglo-American Relations
… Community in 1941. The cleavage between the Federalists and the Republicans over the Treaty was one of the first partisan foreign policy debates under the government of the Constitution, and it was often repeated, as in 1919 between Henry Cabot lodge and Woodrow Wilson over the entry of the …
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Democratizing money : from the federalist papers to the community currency movement
This thesis examines the political idea of democratic money, within the historically specific capitalist democracy (Wood, 1995: 213), and critically evaluates counter claims to be democratizing money made by advocates of community currencies.
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The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction for Federal Income Tax: A Federalist Perspective
… consideration. Specifically, this study offers a federalist1 perspective on the federal income tax benefit from the deduction for HMI - one of the largest personal federal tax expenditures on the books. This dissertation analyzes current national political rhetoric from a federalist perspective. …
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Congress and Early Federalist Military Policy: An Examination of Defense Related Roll Calls in the Second United States Congress, 1792-1793
… who were usually in the ranks of the future Federalist party, felt that a well-trained regular federal force was the only practical military solution for the nation's long-term needs, barring vast improvements in the training and discipline of the state militia forces.</p> <p>Underlying both …
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The Politicization of the American Judiciary: Practical and Theoretical Consequences of a Partisan Supreme Court
The Federalist Society, acting as a Political Epistemic Network, has effectively employed a long-term strategy to engineer a Supreme Court that propagates conservative legal ideology. The organizational structure of the Federalist Society finds, recruits, and retain members who will wield the …
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Public administration in a time of fractured meaning: beyond the legacy of Herbert Simon
… has been suffering an identity crisis. The Anti-Federalist - Federalist debate pitted government by dialogue--the need for a community of meaning, on the one hand, against government by distant centralized authority--the objective control of administration, on the other. In the 20th century this …
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Charlotte the Assassin: A Novel
The novel takes place during the federalist revolt of 1793, during the French Revolution. It involves murder, witches, and female friendships and romantic relationships.
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Prudence and decorum and the invention of american democracy: an examination of the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88
… ratification debates. In addition, Massachusetts federalists had to overcome objections to the proposed constitution based on the system of representation, as well as the absence of a Bill of Rights. Federalists Challenged these views, and established a method of ratification that garnered the …
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
… ratification debates and the Bill of Rights. Antifederalists opposed any expansion of national authority over military power, fearing it would create a monster willing and able to destroy the people's rights. Federalists argued that the people's militia and America's federalist structure would …
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Defining The Republic
… Together, Hamilton and Madison wrote most of The Federalist, and each was pivotal in securing the acceptance of the Constitution in their state ratifying conventions. That within just a few years of the establishment of the new form of government each had worked so hard to achieve, they became …
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James Breckinridge
… internally and internationally. Bearing the Federalist label, Breckinridge' s career fluctuated with Republican mistakes. But he was more of an independent politician than a doctrinaire Federalist. He voted with expediency to benefit his state and his agricultural section of Virginia. …
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From Partisan Banking to Open Access - A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
… showing how the majority political party, the Federalists, held a monopoly on banks by dominating the state legislature in charge of issuing charters for new banks, effectively prohibiting members of the opposing political party, the Democratic- Republicans, from opening banks. Political …
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Originalism & Judicially-Enacted Religious Exemptions: Revisiting <em>Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith</em>
… the text of the Constitution, and The Federalist Papers for clues about how the writers of the Constitution intended to protect religious liberty. Chapter 6 includes a narrative history of the state ratification debates, since these debates provided the energy and some of the original …
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A Conspiratorial Republic: The Societal and Political Impact of Conspiratorial Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States
… Britain in 1812, and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party. This paper expands on early republic historiography and the study of American conspiracy theories.</p>
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Nationalism and integration
… The functionalist, neo-functionalist, federalist and pluralist schools of integration are explored in the chapter. Chapter Three examines the hypothesis in concrete terms with an exploration of how nationalism contributed to nation-state development in Africa. Finally, Chapter Four …
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