Progressive challenges to the American constitution : a new republic / edited by Bradley C.S. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics)--History.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together the leading scholars who have sparked one of the most important intellectual and political movements of our times: the criticism of the progressive intellectual synthesis that has dominated American thought and politics over much of the last century, and has provided the framework in which the administrative state has expanded and flourished. The contributors address the most important questions raised by this movement: what is the meaning of progressivism? What is the nature of the Founders' Constitution and the progressive challenges to it? What is the significance of recent scholarship and public opinion that have arisen in opposition to the progressive vision? What are the implications of American progressivism for twenty-first century politics and policy? Progressive Challenges to the American Constitution addresses the growing doubt about the scope and sustainability of expanded government power.

Contents:

Introduction a living thing : the progressive challenge to the American constitutional order / Bradley C.S. Watson

The problem of democracy : recovering the constitution from the progressives / William Schambra

Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the ascendance of the living constitution / Sidney M. Milkis

Progressivism and the doctrine of natural rights / James W. Ceaser

John Dewey and the dilemma of progressive democracy / Wilfred M. McClay

Progressivism, the social sciences, and the rational state / John Marini

Making the state into a god : American progressivism and the social gospel / Ronald J. Pestritto

Progressivism, social science, and Catholic social teaching in the building of the American welfare state / James R. Stoner, Jr

The promise of the new nationalism and its challenge to the framers / Jean M. Yarbrough

William Howard Taft and the constitutionalist presidency in the progressive era / Johnathan O'Neill

Woodrow Wilson and the statesmanship of progress / Charles R. Kesler

Supreme Court : Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, and the progressive

Revolution in constitutional jurisprudence / Bradley C.S. Watson

Regulations from the executive in need of scrutiny : the REINS Act and the art of teaching constitutionalism by legislation / Eric R. Claeys.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-32589-0

1-108-32689-7

1-108-32709-5

1-107-47616-X

1-316-14608-1

1-108-32729-X

1-108-32749-4

1-108-32829-6

OCLC:

1024249165