Ely viewed the state as the greatest redemptive force in society. . . . In

Ely‘s eyes, government was the God-given instrument through which we

had to work. Its preeminence as a divine instrument was based on the

post-Reformation abolition of the division between the sacred and the secular and on the State’s power to implement ethical solutions to public problems. The same identification of sacred and secular which took place

among liberal clergy enabled Ely to both divinize the state and socialize

Christianity: he thought of government as God’s main instrument ofredemption. (Quandt 1973, 402–3)

 

Quandt, Jean B. 1973. Religion and Social Thought: The Secularization of Postmillenialism. American Quarterly 25 (October): 390–409

Holmes set about mastering the technical details of the law, with the ultimate goal of reformulating its theoretical underpinnings. His project was to replace the prevailing theologically tinged or formalistic legal theories with a modern jurisprudence that draws its inspiration from Darwin and its methods from German historical scholarship and English utilitarianism. He labored for fifteen years, practicing law by day and studying and writing at night, first to master the law’s substance, and then to re-imagine it as at once a social instrument and a product of society’s habits, desires, and ideals.

Thomas G. Grey

We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.

Giving Man Control of Births

President 1901-1909 1. Supports Income & Inheritance

taxation.2. Greatly adds to executive powerthrough executive orders.3. Pursues as active “trust busting” policy.This leads to a decline in the stock market which does not recover until the early 1920s.4. Builds the Panama Canal and insists that the US can intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries.5. Extends Federal Government ownership of land.6. Supports National Health Insurance.7. Limits injunctions in strikes.8. Splits Republican Party in 1912 thereby allowing the election of Woodrow Wilson.9. Campaigns to get the U.S. into WW I in 1914.

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Progressive Wilson seeks to reorder the world

1. Passage of the Federal Reserve Act-1913

2. The Income Tax 3. Direct Election of Senators 4. Interference in Mexican Elections-1914 5. Clayton Act- exempts labor unions

from anti-trust.6. 1916 invades Haiti & Dominican Republic7. 1918- Panama8. Troops in Nicaragua throughout administration9. Invasion of Russia

10. Refuses to lend money to Kerensky regime in Russia unless they stay in war. This is before we enter the war.

11. Misleads the American people about peace during the election of 1916 while promising England that we will enter war.

12. Insists that he will not negotiate with Monarchies of Central Powers thereby causing their fall and opening for totalitarian regimes.

Novel Written to promote overthrow of Constitutional Government and replacement by administrators. Key adviser to Wilson promotes US entry into WWI.

“Making the world safe for Democracy.”

Spanish-American War & Philippine-American War- 1898-1902 under McKinley/Roosevelt Administrations- Progressive

World War I-1917-1918 under Wilson Administration-Progressive

World War II- 1941-1945-Under Roosevelt/Truman administrations-Progressive

Korea-1950-1952 under Truman Administration-Progressive Viet Nam- 1954-1975-aid started under quasi-

conservative Eisenhower Administration but escalation in 1965 is under Johnson Administration-Progressive

Balkan Wars-1995-Clinton Administration-Progressive Gulf War- 1990-1991-under Bush I administration-

questionable Afganistan-2001-present & Iraq -2003-present-Bush II

administration-quasi-Progressive Continuing Mideast Wars-Libya – Obama Administration-

Progressive

Garet Garrett1878-1954

What is a Empire?Rise of the executive principle of government to a position of dominant power

Accommodation of domestic policy to a foreign policy

Ascendancy of the military mind

A system of satellite nations for a purpose called collective security

An emotion complex of vaunting and fear

Conservative Roman Statesman. Known for Natural law arguments.

Warren G. Harding & Calvin Coolidge

Key contributor: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Whig; served in Parliament from 1765-1794 Irish born Preached “conciliation with America” Reflections on the Revolution in France

Delineated errors/ideological nature of French Revolution (vs. American War for Independence…a revolution not made but prevented) Abuse of power and language Confusion of license for liberty Product of idyllic and diabolical imaginations/lust for

power, money

1. Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well is conscience. Political problems, at bottom are religious and moral problems.

2. Affection for the proliferating variety of mystery of human existence as opposed to narrowing uniformity, egalitarianism, and utilitarian aims of most radical systems.

3. Conviction that civilized society requires orders and classes as against the notion of a "classless society." With reason, conservatives often have been called "the party of order."

4. Persuasion that freedom and property are closely linked's: separate property from private possession, and Leviathan becomes master of all. Economic leveling, is not economic progress.

5. Faith in prescription and distrust of "sophist errs, calculators, and economist" who would reconstruct society of an abstract designs. Custom, convention, an old prescription are checks both upon man's anarchic impulses and upon the innovators lust for power.

6. Recognition that change may not be salutary reform: hasty innovation may be of devouring conflagration, rather than a torch of progress. A statesman's chief virtue, according to Plato and Burke, is prudence.

The Conservative Mind, Seventh Revised Edition, pgs. 8-9

Defender of the Free Economy

1. Tax Cuts 2. De-regulation 3. Monetary Restraint 4. Balance Budget 5. Conciliation in Foreign Affairs 6. Reluctant use of force 7. Co-operation with John-Paul II, Margaret

Thatcher & Helmut Kohl 8. Work to end Nuclear Threat with

Gorbachev

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