The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal
Cambridge University Press, 8/22/2013
EAN 9781107032958, ISBN10: 1107032954
Hardcover, 366 pages, 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
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.
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.