Progressive Challenges to the American Constitution: A New Republic

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.

Author: Bradley C. S. Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/24/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.26w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9781107094376

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2018

About the Author
Watson, Bradley C. S.: - Bradley C. S. Watson is Professor of Politics at Saint Vincent College, Pennsylvania, where he holds the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought. Watson has contributed to various journals and authored many books, including Living Constitution, Dying Faith (2009), Civic Education and Culture (2005), The Idea of the American University (2011), and The West at War (2006).