Product Description: Habits of Mind maintains that the fact that almost everyone now goes to college need not be seen as an obstacle to excellence in education. Some critics have insisted that college is not for everyone, but William B. Allen and Carol Allen assert that the college diploma has rightly become as much the norm in this century as the high school diploma was during the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: At the pivotal moment in the history of the United States of America, ratification of the Constitution was championed by James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton in a series of newspaper articles known as the Federalist Papers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: What is the role of the Supreme Court of the United States? This book explores that question, especially the manner in which the modern judiciary applies the definitions and limits expressed in the Constitution to control the operation of national government.

Product Description: Building upon the thesis that James Madison's political philosophy can be articulated without excuses made for his "separation" from Alexander Hamilton or his "dependence" on Thomas Jefferson, this book structures an account of Madison's response to conditions of democratic opinion in a large nation-state...read more

Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George Washington, he was the leader of his party in the House of Representatives. Ames was active in public life from 1787 through 1807 and was instrumental in one drafting of the First Amendment to the Constitution. His witty, often brilliant, letters, speeches, and essays offered a sustained defense of conservative principles and insight into the Federalist theory of government. This enlarged edition includes many speeches and writings by Ames that were omitted from the original edition of Ames's works published in 1854.