Noah Feldman: Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship
Noah Feldman: Hamilton gegen Madison und die Geburt des amerikanischen Pateigängertums
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for the last year or so,
versucht haben, diese zu verstehen,
like the following three propositions:
Behauptungen gestoßen:
has never been so bad before;
war noch nie so schlimm.
it's geographically spatialized --
ist es geografisch geordnet --
which want to look outwards,
die nach außen schauen wollen,
which wants to look inwards;
das nach innen schauen will.
that all three of these propositions,
dass alle diese Behauptungen,
in almost eerily the same way
unheimlich ähnlich geordnet wie heute,
throughout US history.
an extraordinary mechanism
einen außergewöhnlichen Mechanismus,
factional disagreement and partisanship.
Parteigängertum kontrollieren soll.
supplely designed entity
elastisch konstruierte Einheit,
factional disagreement
Unstimmigkeiten zu lehren,
for overcoming that disagreement
Unstimmigkeit möglichst zu überwinden.
to a pivotal moment in US history,
Moment in der US-Geschichte zurückkehren:
and partisanship was born.
und Parteigängertum entstanden.
when partisanship snapped into place.
als Parteigängertum geboren wurde.
of that story is James Madison.
of not only the US Constitution,
nicht nur der US-Verfassung,
im weiteren Sinne,
more globally,
designed, passed and gotten ratified
geplant, theoretisiert, gestaltet,
some sense of the enormity
von der immensen Bedeutung
couldn't have known it at the time,
nicht hätte wissen können,
that he invented is still in use
den er erfand, ist noch immer in Gebrauch,
of contexts all over the world,
Kontexten weltweit
to manage governance.
der Regierungsgewalt.
durch seine Lösung dieses Problem,
having solved this problem,
the results of factions
minimieren würde,
he had designed a constitution
of his constitutional project
seines Verfassungsprojekts
haben könnten: Alexander Hamilton.
called Alexander Hamilton.
Madison was not.
where Madison was restrained.
wo Madison zurückhaltend war.
to a woman expect for once
and lived happily ever after for 40 years.
40 Jahre glücklich mit ihr lebte.
a hip-hop musical --
a hip-hop musical.
schreiben würde.
the Federalist Papers,
and wildly successful.
and infrastructure
und Infrastruktur dasselbe zu tun,
for constitutions.
der Verfassung getan hatte.
of infrastructure.
der Infrastruktur war.
the United States a national bank,
eine nationale Bank geben,
"immortal," his phrase --
that would enable trade and manufacturing
die Handel und Fabriken
wealth had historically been.
des Wohlstands des Landes war.
that his old friend Hamilton was wrong
dass sein alter Freund Hamilton falsch lag
were unconstitutional --
verfassungswidrig seien,
of the Constitution
verletzen würden,
the way you would expect.
his "personal and political enemy" --
"persönlichen und politischen Feind" --
such close friends and such close allies
so enge Freunde und Verbündete
old-fashioned way.
nach altbewährter Methode.
the Democratic Republican Party --
Demokratisch-Republikanische-Partei hieß --
called the Federalist Party.
namens "Föderalisten-Partei".
positions on national politics
zur nationalen Politik ein,
some manufacturing and some trade
to put in charge of the country.
zuständig machen wollte.
Madison came to believe.
was to look inwards
nach innen schauen,
of Republican virtue,
republikanischer Tugend seien,
that had made American great,
sollten, die Amerika auszeichnen,
by saying that Madison was naïve,
indem er Madison naiv nannte,
to turn the United States
primitiven Autarkie zu machen,
on the global scale.
unbrauchbar auf globaler Ebene.
to each of their claims,
in jeder ihrer Behauptungen,
the views of the other
der anderen übertrieb,
came entirely through the lens
der Republikaner oder der Föderalisten.
or the Federalist party.
the Constitution did its work.
machte die Verfassung ihre Arbeit.
had not fully anticipated.
die Republikaner fertig.
when he thought about anything --
in seinen Gedanken --
that the press was so pro-Federalist
were all Federalists,
alle Föderalisten seien,
who got their capital from Britain,
die ihr Geld von Großbritannien bekämen,
unter einer Decke stecke.
criticism of the government --
die Kritik an der Regierung verboten --
the freedom of speech,
Meinungsfreiheit zu betonen,
into the Bill of Rights,
kleine örtliche Gruppen
Democratic-Republican Societies --
Demokratisch-Republikanische Verbände --
against Federalist-dominated hegemony.
föderalistisch dominierte Vorherrschaft.
to win a national election --
eine nationale Wahl --
became president,
wurde Präsident,
completely out of business.
sogar komplett aus.
of the Constitution
that actually managed faction
die Uneinigkeit verwalteten,
in the first place.
dass die Regierung schrecklich war.
that the government was terrible.
private groups, individuals,
und andere zusammenzustellen,
about fundamental change.
um grundlegenden Wandel zu bewirken.
was the separation of powers --
die Gewaltenteilung --
of the Constitution.
Komponente der Verfassung.
in the United States
unless you bring on board the center.
kann praktisch nicht regieren.
that come incredibly fast
die unglaublich schnell kommen,
the president, in fact, does not rule
der Präsident tatsächlich nicht herrscht,
which other people have to agree with --
bei denen andere zustimmen müssen --
to drive presidents
will reveal to you
completely in operation.
immer noch gültig sind.
follows the rules of the Constitution,
die Regeln der Verfassung.
as indeed has sometimes occurred,
wie es bereits vorkam,
sondern in der Vergangenheit der USA.
but in the past, in US history.
dass sie Stimmen gewinnen müssen
they need to win election
in order to pass laws.
unterstützen, um Gesetze zu verabschieden.
then, is the following:
mitnehmen, ist Folgendes:
is greater than partisanship.
ist bedeutender als Parteigängertum.
when that's possible,
möglichst fertigzuwerden
to overcome partisan division
Gegensätze zu überwinden
is a technology that worked
während des Bürgerkriegs,
of the Civil War,
die Ihnen wichtig sind,
that you care about,
that matter to you,
zu Problemen, die Ihnen wichtig sind,
Wissen und Vertrauen,
and knowledge and confidence
nur durch Zusammenarbeit
can do the job that it is designed to do.
für die sie entworfen wurde.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Noah Feldman - Constitutional law scholarNoah Feldman studies the intersection of religion, politics and law.
Why you should listen
Noah Feldman is a professor and writer who tries to figure out how to make the government follow the rules; what the rules are that the government has to follow; and what to do if the rules are being broken. In his work, he asks questions like: How can a 225-year-old constitutional blueprint still work? Can you design a new and better constitution from scratch in places like Iraq and Tunisia? What rights do we have, really?
Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a contributing writer for Bloomberg View. He served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution. He is writing a biography on James Madison, principal author of the Constitution and fourth president of the US; it's forthcoming in 2017.
Feldman is the author of six other books: Cool War: The Future of Global Competition (Random House, 2013); Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices (Twelve Publishing, 2010); The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Princeton University Press, 2008); Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation-building (Princeton University Press 2004) and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2003. He most recently co-authored two textbooks: Constitutional Law, Eighteenth Edition (Foundation Press, 2013) and First Amendment Law, Fifth Edition (Foundation Press, 2013).
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