Paul D. Moreno

American State from the Civil War to the New Deal (eBook, ePUB)

The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the 'second Reconstruction' and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the American founders - and then Lincoln and the Republicans - returned to a long tradition of Anglo-American constitutional principles. During the Industrial Revolution, American political thinkers and actors gradually abandoned those principles for a set of modern ideas, initially called progressivism. The social crisis, culminating in the Great Depression, did not produce a Lincoln to return to the founders' principles, but rather a series of leaders who repudiated them. Since the New Deal, Americans have lived in a constitutional twilight, not having completely abandoned the natural-rights constitutionalism of the founders, nor embraced the entitlement-based welfare state of modern liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107065536
• Artikelnr.: 39552012

Autorenporträt

Paul D. Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution and is the Dean of Faculty at Hillsdale College. He has taught at Hillsdale College for thirteen years and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and the University of Paris School of Law. He earned his doctorate under Herman Belz at the University of Maryland in 1994. Moreno is the author of From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America and Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The post-war Constitution
2. The judiciary and private rights
3. Crisis of 1890s
4. The new jurisprudence
5. The due process dialectic
6. Federal police power
7. Rooseveltian progressivism
8. The Lochner incident
9. Court and Constitution in crisis
10. Taft and the Republican crack-up
11. Wilsonian progressivism
12. The new freedom
13. The new Wilson
14. The Great War
15. The return of the regular republicans
16. The Taft court
17. The last progressive
18. The New Deal
19. To the brink
20. The Second New Deal
21. The court fight
22. The abortive Third New Deal
23. The New Deal court.