FEDERALIST NO. 10

James Joyner · Wednesday, June 18, 2003 · 1 Comment

Brett Marston has some interesting essays (here and here) on current battles between the major political parties over the separation of powers and the intent of the Framers. I’m a little sleepy for an extended analysis, let alone to look up “thumos,” but his arguments strike me as reasonable.

One of the things I always emphasized to my students in the old days when I was teaching American politics was that the guys who wrote the Constitution were /gasp/ politicians and that, indeed, politics didn’t begin with (insert name of current President) and (insert name of current opposition party leader). Brett’s posts make a similar, if more elaborate, point.

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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PoliBlog says:

Friday, June 20, 2003 at 21:04

Political Parties and the Founding Fathers
Brett Marston points out that part of the problem in the judicial nomination process is the existence of political parties–the formation of which was something the Founding Fathers weren’t too keen on. I agree with him in part (no pun…

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