First Principles Series Report posted August 20, 2012 by William A. Schambra
The Origins and Revival of Constitutional Conservatism: 1912 and 2012
Abstract: The Framers of our Constitution drew a distinction between unfettered democratic rule and the constrained republicanism of the Constitution. In the Republican convention of 1912, two candidates with diametrically opposed views of what sovereignty of the people meant were pitted against each other. On one side, incumbent President William Howard Taft defended the…
First Principles Series Report posted July 18, 2007 by Thomas G. West, William A. Schambra
The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics
Progressivism was the reform movement that ran from the late
19th century through the first decades of the 20th century, during
which leading intellectuals and social reformers in the United
States sought to address the economic, political, and cultural
questions that had arisen in the context of the rapid changes
brought with the Industrial Revolution and the growth…