greykit.essays — #separation-of-powers
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1787-10-27
[american-founding]
The Federalist Papers
The eighty-five essays by "Publius" arguing for ratification of the United States Constitution.
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1787-10-18
[american-founding]
The Anti-Federalist Papers: Brutus
The most formidable Anti-Federalist series — the direct answer to the Federalist, arguing a republic cannot be extended over so vast a territory and warning that the federal judiciary would swallow the states.
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1787-09-17
[american-founding]
The Constitution of the United States
The original 1787 Constitution establishing the federal government of the United States.
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1776-04-01
[american-founding]
Thoughts on Government
Adams's blueprint for republican government — a bicameral legislature, an independent judiciary, and annual elections — written as a letter and taken up by several state constitutions.
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1748-01-01
[sources-of-liberty]
The Spirit of the Laws
The Enlightenment treatise on government the founders cited above all others — the source of the doctrine of the separation of powers, from the selected books on the forms, principles, and corruption of government and on political liberty.
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c. 54 BC
[sources-of-liberty]
On the Commonwealth
Cicero's dialogue on the best form of the state — the mixed constitution, the doctrine of a natural higher law ("True law is right reason"), and the Dream of Scipio. Surviving in fragments, it shaped the founders' idea of a republic.