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The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics
Publication Date: July 2007
Publisher(s): Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Thomas G. West; William A. Schambra
Series: First Principles
Topic: Politics (Nationalism)
Keywords: Thought; New Deal; first principles; American Founding
Type: Other
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Although material circumstances and politicians' self-interest helped to make America what it is today, the most important cause was a change in the prevailing understanding of justice among leading American intellectuals and in the American people. Today's liberalism and the policies that it has generated arose from a conscious repudiation of the principles of the American founding.