Progressive Challenges to the American Constitution

Introduction. A living thing: the progressive challenge to the American constitutional order Bradley C. S. Watson; Part I. Contested Constitutionalism and the Election of 1912: 1. The problem of democracy: recovering the Constitution from the progressives William Schambra; 2. Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the ascendance of the living Constitution Sidney M. Milkis; Part II. The Political Philosophy of Progressivism: 3. Progressivism and the Doctrine of Natural Rights James W. Ceaser; 4. John Dewey and the dilemma of progressive democracy Wilfred M. McClay; Part III. The Political Theory of the Progressive State: 5. Progressivism, the social sciences, and the rational state John Marini; 6. Making the state into a god: American progressivism and the social Gospel Ronald J. Pestritto; 7. Progressivism, social science, and Catholic social teaching in the building of the American welfare state James R. Stoner, Jr; Part IV. The Progressive Presidency: 8. The promise of the new nationalism and its challenge to the framers Jean M. Yarbrough; 9. William Howard Taft and the constitutionalist presidency in the progressive era Johnathan O'Neill; 10. Woodrow Wilson and the statesmanship of progress Charles R. Kesler; Part V. The Supreme Court, Congress, and the Future of the Constitution: 11. One supreme court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, and the progressive revolution in constitutional jurisprudence Bradley C. S. Watson; 12. Regulations from the executive in need of scrutiny: the REINS Act and the art of teaching constitutionalism by legislation Eric R. Claeys.