The Cambridge Companion To The Federalist Papers

A multifaceted approach to The Federalist that covers both its historical value and its continuing political relevance.

This book details the events of the Revolutionary War period, the difficulties encountered under the Articles of Confederation, and provides an extended outline of the Federalist Papers. It includes a double index and cross-reference to the Constitution and Federalist Papers.

An expert survey of liberal approaches and liberal responses to diverse topics and controversies in contemporary political thought and practice.

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.

The Madisonian approach to institutional design, as set forth in The Federalist Papers, is examined from the point of view of leading theorists of the "public choice" school who see themselves as the political heirs of that earlier legacy. ." . . the most ambitious attempt to date to reread The Federalist in the light of modern social science." - Publius

Introduces Cicero's philosophy and demonstrates its relevance to many fundamental epistemological, ethical, and political issues.

Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.