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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786999303321

Autore

Moreno Paul D. <1965->

Titolo

The American state from the Civil War to the New Deal : the twilight of constitutionalism and the triumph of progressivism / / Paul D. Moreno [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-06553-4

1-107-05699-3

1-107-05814-7

1-107-05946-1

1-139-50769-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS036000

Disciplina

306.0973

Soggetti

Progressivism (United States politics)

United States Social policy

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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. Toward a 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 Tepublicans -- 16. The Taft court -- 17. The last progressive -- 18. The hundred days -- 19. To the brink -- 20. The Second New Deal -- 21. The court fight -- 22. The abortive Third New Deal -- 23. The New Deal court.

Sommario/riassunto

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.