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NOTES
Epigraph
1 Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, 35–36.
Preface
1 Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat, ix.
Introduction
1 Chernow, Washington: A Life, 282.
2 Trevelyan, The American Revolution, Volume III, 113.
3 de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle, 10.
4 Hale, Woodrow Wilson: The Story of His Life, 153.
5 Feldman, Scorpions, 179.
6 Ibid., 180.
7 Minersville v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).
8 Ibid.
9 Feldman, Scorpions, 184.
10 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
11 Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason, xi.
12 McClay, “How to Think about Patriotism,” National Affairs, 107.
13 Lipset, American Exceptionalism, 18.
14 Whitehead, Process and Reality, 39.
15 Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, xv–xvi.
16 Goldwater, Goldwater, 119.
17 Ibid., 154.
18 Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion, vii–viii.
19 Wister, The Virginian, 29.
20 Rovere, The Goldwater Caper, 10.
21 Barone, “The Enduring Character of Democrats and Republicans in Times of Political Change,” 2010.
Chapter 1: The Founders’ Epistemological Assertion
1 Hamilton, “The Farmer Refuted, &c., [23 February] 1775,” 1775.
2 Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, 82–83.
3 Coolidge, “Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” 1926.
4 Ibid.
5 Hamilton, “The Farmer Refuted, &c., [23 February] 1775,” 1775.
6 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 436–437.
7 Handlin, The Popular Sources of Political Authority, 330, 327.
8 Hobbes, Leviathan, 69.
9 Handlin, The Popular Sources of Political Authority, 440–441.
10 Miller, Errand into the Wilderness, 2.
11 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 98.
12 Ibid., 104.
13 Hobbes, Leviathan, 69.
14 Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 218–219.
15 Bluhm, Theories of the Political System, 219.
16 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 3–5, 9.
17 Wood, Friends Divided, 5, 121–122.
18 Hegel, Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right, 21.
19 Hamilton, “The Farmer Refuted, &c., [23 February] 1775,” 1775.
20 Cooke, The Federalist, 578.
21 Paine, Paine: Collected Writings, 6.
22 Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 106.
23 Hobbes, Leviathan, 37.
24 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 114–115.
25 Ibid., 112.
26 Hamilton, “The Farmer Refuted, &c., [23 February] 1775,” 1775.
27 Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough, 78, 104–109.
28 Barnett, The Structure of Liberty, 15.
29 Roberts, Introduction to Political Thought, 48.
30 Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 4–5.
31 Ibid., 5.
32 Ibid., 11, 23, 27, 44, 51, 61, 66.
33 Ibid., 123, 171, 189.
34 Burke, The Works of Edmund Burke, 444.
35 Cooke,
The Federalist, 56–65, 347–353.
36 Mansfield, America’s Constitutional Soul, 16.
37 Rustow, Freedom and Domination, 519.
38 Cooke, The Federalist, 347–353.
39 Lincoln, Great Speeches, 60–61.
40 Jefferson, “First Inaugural Address,” 1801.
41 Diamond, “The American Idea of Equality,” 316.
42 Ibid., 315.
43 Ibid., 316.
44 Ibid., 316, 318.
45 Ibid., 318–319.
46 Ibid., 320–321.
47 Ibid., 321.
48 Ibid., 323, 326.
49 Ibid., 329–330.
50 Cooke, The Federalist, 347–353.
51 Jefferson, “Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,” 1813.
52 Hamilton, Presidents, 34.
53 Lee, Our Lost Constitution, 19.
54 Cooke, The Federalist, 28, 378.
55 Paine, Paine: Collected Writings, 52, 551.
56 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, 140.
57 Kesler, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, 82.
Chapter 2: The Progressives’ Revision
1 Wilson, The New Freedom, 51.
2 Drehle, Triangle, 1, 3, 127, 195, 214.
3 Will, “Labels Do Matter,” 1992.
4 McDowell, Reason and Republicanism, 211.
5 Roosevelt, “Annual Message to Congress,” 1938.
6 McPherson, A Political Education, 301.
7 Johnson, “Remarks at the University of Michigan,” 1964.
8 Lippmann, Drift and Mastery, 267, 318.
9 Bagehot, Physics and Politics, 53.
10 Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough, 89.
11 Merriam, A History of American Political Theories, 305.
12 Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 65.
13 Merriam, A History of American Political Theories, 306–307.
14 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, vii.
15 Merriam, A History of American Political Theories, 311.
16 Cooke, The Federalist, 3.
17 Merriam, A History of American Political Theories, 311–313, 315–316, 322.
18 Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, 161–162.
19 Mansfield, America’s Constitutional Soul, 7.
20 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 202.
21 Croly, The Promise of American Life, 53, 169, 275–279, 399.
22 Ibid., 276, 282–283, 287.
23 Ibid., 170, 278–279.
24 Croly, Progressive Democracy, 123, 231, 256.
25 Ibid., 124, 208–209.
26 Ibid., 210–211.
27 Ibid., 227.
28 Roosevelt, “Inaugural Address,” 1933.
29 Croly, The Promise of American Life, 413.
30 Lippmann, Drift and Mastery, 267.
31 Zwonitzer, The Statesman and the Storyteller, 170.
32 Holmes, Holmes and Frankfurter, 19.
33 Holmes, Holmes-Laski Letters, Vol. II, 1035.
34 Farnsworth, Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor, 7.
35 Holmes, Collected Legal Papers, 314.
36 Holmes, Holmes-Laski Letters, Vol. II, 1146.
37 Twain, What is Man?, 138.
38 Holmes, The Path of the Law, 27.
39 Siegel, The Revolt Against the Masses, 53.
40 Leonard, Illiberal Reformers, 13, 22, 40, 69, 109, 127.
41 Ibid., 73–74.
42 Ibid., 73, 142, 157.
43 Ibid., 110, 115.
44 Ibid., 119.
45 Zwonitzer, The Statesman and the Storyteller, 224–225.
46 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 247–248.
47 Roosevelt, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, 307.
48 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 241, 246, 250.
49 Dewey, “The Future of Liberalism,” 225–227.
50 Jones, Karl Marx, 563.
51 Marx, Das Kapital, 2.
52 Burke, The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3, 340.
53 Levin, The Great Debate, 67.
54 Dewey, “The Future of Liberalism,” 227–228.
55 Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 67.
56 Rousseau, The Social Contract, 7–8.
57 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 194–195.
58 Will, The Woven Figure, 310.
59 Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 4.
60 Foss, Whiffs from Wild Meadows, 260.
61 Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, 377.
62 Yarbrough, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, 99, 109, 114.
63 Turner, Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” and Other Essays, 74–75.
64 Yarbrough, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, vii.
65 Cooke, The Federalist, 349.
66 Yarbrough, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, 6–7.
67 Ibid., 11, 19.
68 Ibid., 23.
69 Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, 357.
70 Ibid., 357.
71 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 322–323.
72 Bickel, The Morality of Consent, 121–122.
73 Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, 51.
74 Ibid., 138.
75 Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt, 51, 138, 148.
76 Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, 4.
77 Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, 107–108, 112, 119.
78 Ibid., 40.
79 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 346–347.
80 Ibid., 328.
81 Brands, Woodrow Wilson, 25.
82 Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough, 194.
83 Lukacs, A New Republic, 319.
84 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 67.
85 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 107.
86 Cooke, The Federalist, 471.
87 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 3.
88 Cooke, The Federalist, 58.
89 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 6, 56.
90 Ibid., 122.
91 Ibid., 58.
92 Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859–1865, 213.
93 Ibid., 19.
94 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 6, 68.
95 Ibid., 6.
96 Udehn, The Limits of Public Choice, 48.
97 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 60.
98 Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, 7.
99 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 8, 15.
100 Ibid., 16.
101 Ibid., 34.
102 Ackerman, Trotsky in New York, 1917, 157.
103 Emerson, The Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 116.
104 Lincoln, Lincoln Addresses and Letters, 206.
105 Olcott, William McKinley: Volume II, 96.
106 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 36.
107 Ibid., 38, 40.
108 Ibid., 35.
109 Ibid., 9.
110 Ibid., 101.
111 Ibid., 102–103.
112 Holmes, Holmes-Laski Letters, Vol. I, 249.
113 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 34, 107.
114 Ibid., 55, 70, 74.
115 Ibid., 75, 119–120.
116 Ibid., 77, 118.
117 Ibid., 79, 113, 116.
118 Ibid., 80–81.
119 Ibid., 82–83.
120 Ibid., 85, 122, 124.
121 Ibid., 133, 136–137, 139.
; 122 Ibid., 157, 165, 168–169.
123 Ibid., 180, 206.
124 Ibid., 182, 207–208, 231.
125 Ibid., 212–213.
126 Ibid., 214, 229.
127 Ibid., 243.
128 Hobbes, Leviathan, 123.
129 Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, 230, 232–233.
130 Ibid., 239.
131 Ibid., 254, 259, 262.
132 Ibid., 255.
133 Ibid., 256.
134 Roosevelt, “Radio Address to the Business and Professional Men’s League Throughout the Nation,” 1932.
135 Roosevelt, “Annual Message to Congress,” 1938.
136 Roosevelt, “State of the Union Message to Congress,” 1944.
137 Ibid.
138 Johnson, “Remarks Before the National Convention Upon Accepting the Nomination,” 1964.
139 Kesler, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, 49.
140 Johnson, “Commencement Address at Howard University,” 1965.
141 Roosevelt, “Campaign Address on Progressive Government at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California,” 1932.
142 Ibid.
143 Ibid.
144 Ibid.
145 Ibid.
146 Roosevelt, “Inaugural Address,” 1933.
147 Spark, The Girls of Slender Means, 17–18.
148 Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism.
Chapter 3: Progressivism’s Institutional Consequences
1 Scalia, Scalia Speaks, 157.
2 Cooke, The Federalist, 60.
3 Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough, 77.
4 Heidler, Washington’s Circle, 79.
5 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 54.
6 Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison, 354.
7 Adams, “From John Adams to George Washington, 17 May 1789,” 1789.
8 Brinkley, The American Presidency, 10.
9 Heidler, Washington’s Circle, 66, 70–71.
10 Cooke, The Federalist, 452.
11 “Records of the Federal Convention of 1787,” 1787.
12 Gregg, The Presidential Republic, 20.
13 Schmitt, The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution, 129.
14 Healy, The Cult of the Presidency, 1–2, 281-282.
15 Ibid., 76.
16 Ibid., 79, 124.
17 Krauthammer, “The Audacity of Vanity,” 2008.
18 Healy, The Cult of the Presidency, 132–133.