The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal - The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2013
First published:	June 2013
Authors:	Paul D Moreno
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	362
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-65501-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-107-65501-3
Barcode:	9781107655010

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