Progressive Challenges to the American Constitution: A New Republic

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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. Cover Half-title page Title page Copyright page Dedication Epigraph Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: A Living Thing: The Progressive Challenge to the American Constitutional Order Part I Contested Constitutionalism and the Election of 1912 1 The Problem of Democracy: Recovering the Constitution from the Progressives 2 Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Ascendance of the Living Constitution Part II The Political Philosophy of Progressivism 3 Progressivism and the Doctrine of Natural Rights 4 John Dewey and the Dilemma of Progressive Democracy Part III The Political Theory of the Progressive State 5 Progressivism, the Social Sciences, and the Rational State 6 Making the State into a God: American Progressivism and the Social Gospel 7 Progressivism, Social Science, and Catholic Social Teaching in the Building of the American Welfare State Part IV The Progressive Presidency 8 The Promise of the New Nationalism and its Challenge to the Framers 9 William Howard Taft and the Constitutional Presidency in the Progressive Era 10 Woodrow Wilson and the Statesmanship of Progress Part V The Supreme Court, Congress, and the Future of the Constitution 11 One Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, and the Progressive Revolution in Constitutional Jurisprudence 12 Progressive Political Theory, Contemporary Politics, and the REINS Act Index