Lexington Books
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-3390-4 • Hardback • October 2019 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-1-4985-3391-1 • eBook • October 2019 • $134.50 • (£104.00)
Joseph Postell is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Johnathan O’Neill is professor of history at Georgia Southern University
Chapter One: The Foundations of Constitutional Conservatism
1.From Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution: Elihu Root
2.Human Nature in the Constitution: David Jayne Hill
3.Our Charter of Law and Liberty: David Jayne Hill
4.The Inspiration of the Declaration: Calvin Coolidge
Chapter Two: Tradition, Culture, Civilization, and Progress
5.The Supports of Civilization: Calvin Coolidge
6.Education: The Cornerstone of Self-Government: Calvin Coolidge
7.Principle or Expedient?: George Sutherland
8.The New American Revolution: Nicholas Murray Butler
Chapter Three: Natural Rights and Human Nature
9.The Progress of a People: Calvin Coolidge
10. Address at the Celebration of the Semicentennial of the City of Birmingham, Alabama: Warren Harding
11.The Revolt of the Unfit: Some Reflections on the Doctrine of Evolution : Nicholas Murray Butler
12.Comments on Herbert Spencer’s “The Great Political Superstition”:
Nicholas Murray Butler
13.Commentary on Herbert Spencer’s “The Duty of the State”: William Howard Taft
Chapter Four: Federalism and Economic Regulation
14.How to Preserve the Self-Government of the States: Elihu Root
15.Government and Business: Calvin Coolidge
16.The Reign of Law: Calvin Coolidge
17.Social Justice: Warren Harding
18.The Problems of Business: Warren Harding
19.The Constructive Side of Government: Campaign Speech in St. Louis, November 2, 1928: Herbert Hoover
20.From Our Wonderland of Bureaucracy: James M. Beck
Chapter Five: Constitutionalism, Executive Power, and the Threat of Bureaucratic Government
21.The Constitution and Its Makers: Henry Cabot Lodge
22.The Limitations of the Law: Calvin Coolidge
23.From Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers: William Howard Taft
24.From The People’s Government: David Jayne Hill
25.The Changed Conception of the Constitution: James M. Beck
26.President Gains Power in Old Congress Fight: James M. Beck
Chapter Six: Congress, Political Parties, and Constitutional Government
27.The Role of Parties in Congress: Speeches from the Revolt of 1910: Jacob Sloat Fassett and Joseph Cannon
28.Address of the Temporary Chairman, 1912 Republican National Convention:
Elihu Root
29.From Liberty Under Law: An Interpretation of the Principles of our Constitutional Government: William Howard Taft
30.Party Loyalty and the Presidency: Calvin Coolidge
31.Political Parties: Calvin Coolidge
Chapter Seven: Foreign Policy
32.Fraternity: Warren Harding
33.Towards Making Peace Permanent: 1912 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture: Elihu Root
34.Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Nations and Opening Address by Elihu Root
Elihu Root and the American Society of International Law
35.The Proposed Convention for a League of Nations: Elihu Root
36.The Nations and the Law: David Jayne Hill
37.A Constructive Plan for Human Betterment: William Howard Taft
“With familiar notions of political ‘conservatism’ now coming apart at the seams, it is a good time to think about those who laid much of the groundwork for it a century ago. Who better than Professors O’Neill and Postell to re-introduce us to those men and their ideas?”
— Adam J. White, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
“A collection of marvels, most of them forgotten, all of them neglected, but each shedding light on the origins and challenges of modern American politics. Joseph Postell and Johnathan O’Neill have assembled an anthology of contemporaneous conservative responses to, and dissents from, the Progressive movement, the first wave of modern American liberalism. Their volume will be indispensable to a fair and more complete account of 20th century American history, which for generations has been told as the story of liberalism’s timely rise, inevitable triumph, and curious decline or, at least, frustration. This volume fills in a missing chapter of the story of 20th century conservatism, too, allowing readers to discover for themselves the pre-New Deal roots of the opposition to modern liberalism, to evaluate for themselves both the older conservatism’s fidelity to founding principles, and its relevance for the ongoing reinterpretation of American conservatism in the 21st century.”
— Charles Kesler, Claremont McKenna College