Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
- The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Publius and the Anti-Federalists:
- 2 John Jay, The Federalist, and the Constitution
- 3 “A Vigorous National Government”: Hamilton on Security, War, and Revenue
- 4 “The Known Opinion of the Impartial World”
- 5 The Federalist’s New Federalism
- 6 The Political Psychology of Publius
- 7 Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, and the Philosophical Perspective of The Federalist
- 8 Madison’s Republican Remedy
- 9 The Republicanism of Publius
- 10 “The Interest of the Man”: James Madison’s Constitutional Politics
- 11 Politics Indoors and Out-of-Doors
- 12 “The Cool and Deliberate Sense of the Community”
- 13 Publius on Monarchy
- 14 The Genius of Hamilton and the Birth of the Modern Theory of the Judiciary
- 15 Publius’s Political Science
- 16 The Republican Form of Government in The Federalist
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
15 - Publius’s Political Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
- The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Publius and the Anti-Federalists:
- 2 John Jay, The Federalist, and the Constitution
- 3 “A Vigorous National Government”: Hamilton on Security, War, and Revenue
- 4 “The Known Opinion of the Impartial World”
- 5 The Federalist’s New Federalism
- 6 The Political Psychology of Publius
- 7 Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, and the Philosophical Perspective of The Federalist
- 8 Madison’s Republican Remedy
- 9 The Republicanism of Publius
- 10 “The Interest of the Man”: James Madison’s Constitutional Politics
- 11 Politics Indoors and Out-of-Doors
- 12 “The Cool and Deliberate Sense of the Community”
- 13 Publius on Monarchy
- 14 The Genius of Hamilton and the Birth of the Modern Theory of the Judiciary
- 15 Publius’s Political Science
- 16 The Republican Form of Government in The Federalist
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Summary
How does Publius’s treatment of politics in The Federalist measure up as “political science”? On one hand, the purpose of the essays was more polemical than scientific. The Federalist sought to persuade New Yorkers to adopt the proposed Constitution rather than to evaluate it from an entirely dispassionate stance. Yet Publius’s rhetorical method necessarily required predictions about the ways in which the new institutions would work. The Federalist necessarily made use of positive (empirically based) political science to ground normative political arguments to defend the novel constitutional scheme.
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