Book Review: Federalists and Antifederalists, The Debate Over the Ratification of the Constitution

Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate Over the Ratification of the Constitution (Constitutional Heritage Series, V. 1) by John P. Leffler, Richard Kaminski

Summary: After a short introduction, a selection of papers, newspaper articles from 1787 and 1788 display the arguments and the ferocity of the debate over the ratification of the constitution. Thus, a selection of essays from the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists describe what both sides of the debate thought about the following topics: the Nature of Republican/Democratic Gov’t, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the President, the Judiciary, and the Bill of Rights.

Review:  It is an excellent overview of the arguments presented by both sides of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution.  In the process, the debates also present something of what the founders(both Federalist and Anti-Federalist) thought of how republican government’s should work, and how the government under the Constitution would work.  It also can help us analyze many of the issues at hand today.  Since, the issues they dealt with are very similar to ours.  Such, as the representativeness of the gov’t(Congress),  fears of “Big Brother” or a despotic gov’t arising.  It also reminds us of what the intentions were to restrain the President from doing such things as making war!

Go Clinton!

Yeah, Clinton is winning by about 80 votes and won by a very slim margin Super Tuesday. I’m personally tired of having an idiot as president.

New releases

GNOME 2.20 and KDE4 are soon to be integrated into many distributions in the upcoming months!!!! This includes possibly Hardy Heron(Ubuntu/Kubuntu). KDE looks especially cool, although GNOME looks good as well.

KDE has a really cool looking panel, and improved most of their applications!

GNOME’s interface hasn’t changed much, but they have improved many of their applications as well.

Still I’m much more impressed by KDE’s work so far!

Anyways, I can’t wait for the summer when I’ll have a chance to run these through the gauntlet!