Alexander Hamilton, , March 14, 1779* James Wilson, , Dec. 3-4, 1787* John Jay , June 1788* Pennsylvania * Lincoln and the Meaning of the Civil War (Oct. 27) Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, 103-04 ALGS, Lincoln, Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865, 106-09 ALGS, (Oct. 27) Frederick Douglass 3-228 (highly recommended) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852* “” Blacks Must Learn Trades,” pp. 349-352* “Free Kinds of Abolitionists,” pp. 353-59* “Three January 1862, pp. 373-78* “,” Progress of Blacks Twenty Years after Emancipation,” December 8, 1883, pp. 379-88* “The Future of Blacks in the United States”* “The April 14, 1876,” 389-91* “,” III. LIBERAL PROGRESSIVISM, THE NEW DEAL & THE GREAT SOCEITY of the present generation are in the season of free, outspoken, unrestrained “We constitutional criticism. We are the first Americans to hear our own countrymen ask whether the Constitution is still adapted to serve the purposes for which it was intended . . . .” - Woodrow Wilson, 1885 Congressional Government, "Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology." "Not natural rights but consequences in the lives of individuals are the criterion and measure of policy and judgment." - John Dewey, 1935 Liberalism and Social Action, The Political and Constitutional Philosophy of Progressive Liberalism (Nov. 1, 3, 8, 10) Herbert It’s Conditions and Purposes,” Ch. 7 from The Promise of “Reconstruction; ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard American Life, University Press, 1965), pp. 176-214* Theodore Roosevelt, (1910)* “,” Woodrow Wilson - “”* - Excerpts from Chapter 1, Chapter 3: Constitutional Government in the United States: “”; “”* - (excerpts)* The New Freedom Charles E. Merriam, Chapter 8 of (1903)* A History of American Political Theories “,” Franklin D. Roosevelt - , September 23, 1932* - , June 26, 1936*
Alexander Hamilton, , March 14, 1779* James Wilson, , Dec. 3-4, 1787* John Jay , June 1788* Pennsylvania * Lincoln and the Meaning of the Civil War (Oct. 27) Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, ALGS, 103-04 Lincoln, Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865, ALGS, 106-09 Frederick Douglass (Oct. 27) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 3-228 (highly recommended) “” July 5, 1852* “Free Blacks Must Learn Trades,” pp. 349-352* “Three Kinds of Abolitionists,” pp. 353-59* “,” January 1862, pp. 373-78* “The Progress of Blacks Twenty Years after Emancipation,” December 8, 1883, pp. 379-88* “The Future of Blacks in the United States”* “,” April 14, 1876,” 389-91* III. LIBERAL PROGRESSIVISM, THE NEW DEAL & THE GREAT SOCEITY “We of the present generation are in the season of free, outspoken, unrestrained constitutional criticism. We are the first Americans to hear our own countrymen ask whether the Constitution is still adapted to serve the purposes for which it was intended . . . .” - Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government, 1885 "Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology." "Not natural rights but consequences in the lives of individuals are the criterion and measure of policy and judgment." - John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action, 1935 The Political and Constitutional Philosophy of Progressive Liberalism (Nov. 1, 3, 8, 10) Herbert “Reconstruction; It’s Conditions and Purposes,” Ch. 7 from The Promise of American Life, ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. 176-214* Theodore Roosevelt, “,” (1910)* Woodrow Wilson - “”* - Excerpts from Constitutional Government in the United States: Chapter 1, “”; Chapter 3: “”* - The New Freedom (excerpts)* Charles E. Merriam, “,” Chapter 8 of A History of American Political Theories (1903)* Franklin D. Roosevelt - , September 23, 1932* - , June 26, 1936*