American State From the Civil War to the New Deal - The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism

The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state, from the Civil War to the New Deal, this book challenges the predominant academic view that celebrates the rise of government power and shows how the traditional ideas of the founders were undermined in the progressive and New Deal eras.

Product details

• Authors: Paul D Moreno, Paul D. Moreno, Paul D. (Hillsdale College Moreno, Moreno Paul D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2013
• EAN: 9781107655010
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65501-0
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas