The Second Republic

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The Second Republic

• Mr. Greens American Government

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Outline of the Lecture

• The Turn Toward Big Government
• The New Deal
• The New Federalism
• Interest Group Liberalism
• Keynesian Macroeconomics
• The Progressive Judiciary
• Majority Culture
• The Imperial Presidency
• The New Ideologies

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The Turn to Big Government

• The Evils of Industrial Capitalism
• Economic Evil
• Monopoly
• Political Evil
• Graft and Corruption
• Social Evil
• Exploitation of Workers Causing Widespread
  Poverty

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Rockefellers Control
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The Turn to Big Government

• The Evils of Industrial Capitalism
• Economic Evil
• Monopoly
• Political Evil
• Graft and Corruption
• Social Evil
• Exploitation of Workers Causing Widespread
  Poverty

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Sweatshops
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Child Labor
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Urban Poverty
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The Turn to Big Government

• 1896-9132
• Populism (Politics in the Name of the Common Man)
• Suspicion and Fear of the Power of big
  Corporations
• Big Railroads
• Big Banks
• Standard Oil
• Bimetallism Gold and Silver
• Government Regulation of Big Business
• Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) 1887
• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial

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The Turn to Big Government

• 1896-1932
• The Election of 1896
• William Jennings Bryan and the Democrat Shift

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Bryan Balancing Democrats and Populists
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The Turn to Big Government

• 1896 to 1932
• The Rise of Progressivism
• The Egalitarian Critique of Capitalism

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Egalitarian Critique of Capitalism

• Egalitarian Critique of Capitalism
• Creates Prosperity, But It Also
• Exploits Labor
• Labor Theory of Value
• Distributes Incomes Unequally Causing Poverty
• Corrupts The Political System
• Despoils The Natural Environment
• It Doesnt Always Bring Prosperity
• The Business Cycle

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Egalitarian Solutions

• socialists End Capitalism
• Public Ownership of the Means Of Production
• Justice and Fairness
• progressives Managed Capitalism
• Property and Business Left in Private Hands
• Public Supervision, Regulation, and Management of
  the Market . . .
• Neo-Mercantilism Oriented To Virtue Rather Than
  Nationalism
• Hebert Croley Use Hamiltonian Means To Obtain
  Jeffersonian Ends
• Faith in experts

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Robert Lafollette
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The Turn to Big Government

• 1896 to 1932
• The Rise of Progressivism
• The Egalitarian Critique of Capitalism
• Faith in Experts
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Republicans
• Regulation of Corporations

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Theodore Roosevelt
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The Turn to Big Government

• 1896 to 1932
• The Rise of Progressivism
• The Progressive Critique of Capitalism
• Faith in Experts
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Republicans
• Regulation of Corporations
• 16th Amendment The Income Tax
• 17th Amendment Direct Election of Senators

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The Turn to Big Government

• 1896 to 1932
• The Rise of Progressivism
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican
• Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats
• The Federal Reserve System
• The Clayton Act
• Pro-Union
• Antitrust
• World War I
• National Economic Planning
• Civil Liberties Regulation
• Womans Suffrage

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The End