From liberty to democracy : the transformation of American government
"From Liberty to Democracy traces the evolution of American government and its fundamental principle from liberty, at its inception, to democracy in the twentieth century."
Print Book, English, ©2002
The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2002
xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780472112906, 0472112902
49799356
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