From Liberty to Democracy The Transformation of American Government

Name: From Liberty to Democracy The Transformation of American Government
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ISBN: 9780472112906

ISBN-10: 0472112902

ISBN-13: 9780472112906

Edition: 2002

Authors: Randall G. Holcombe

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At the nation's founding, the fundamental principle underlying American government was liberty, and the nation's new government was designed to protect the rights of individuals. The American founders intended to design a government that would protect the rights of its citizens, and at that time the most serious threat to people's rights was government. Thus, the United States government was designed with a constitutionally limited scope to preserve the rights of individuals and limit the powers of government. The government's activities during two world wars and the Great Depression greatly increased its involvement in people's economic affairs, and by the time of Lyndon Johnson's Great…

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List price: $99.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.29" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Figures


Preface


Liberty: The Revolutionary Cause


Liberty and Democracy as Economic Systems


Consensus versus Democracy: Politics in Eighteenth-Century America


Constitutions as Constraints: The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States


The Growth of Parties and Interests before the War between the States


The Impact of the War between the States


Interest Groups and the Transition to Government Growth: 1870-1915


Populism and Progressivism


The Growth of the Federal Government in the 1920s


The New Deal and World War II


Democracy Triumphs: The Great Society


The Dangers of Democracy


Notes


References


Index