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The Transformation of America’s Constitutional Order?
Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era
Instructor: R. J. Pestritto, University of Dallas
Saturday, November 4, 2000

10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Founders Seminar Room, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio

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The seminar will examine the influence of progressivism on America’s understanding of the principles of just government and of the purpose and structure of its political institutions. Focusing primarily on the political thought of Woodrow Wilson, a prolific scholar on American politics long before he became President of the United States, the seminar will discuss the essential principles of progressivism and will address the question of whether Wilson and progressivism represent a continuity with or a deviation from the political thinking that informed the founding of the American republic. The seminar will examine Wilson’s views on Congress, the presidency, and the bureaucracy, and will discuss the influence from progressivism that we can see in these same institutions today.

R. J. Pestritto is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas.

Readings
  • Woodrow Wilson, "What is Constitutional Government?," Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911) p. 1-5.
     
  • Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (New York and Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913) p. 46-53.
     
  • Woodrow Wilson, "The House of Representatives," Congressional Government. p. 57-65.
     
  • Woodrow Wilson, "Conclusion," Congressional Government. p. 193-198.
     
  • Woodrow Wilson, "The President of the United States," Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911) p. 54-71.
     

    Optional Readings
     
  • Woodrow Wilson, "Leaders of Men," in Arthur S. Link, ed., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 6 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969) p. 649-659.
     
  • Woodrow Wilson, "The Study of Administration," in Arthur S. Link, ed., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 5 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968) p. 357-380.
     


 

         
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