Source: Frank Johnson Goodnow, The American Conception of Liberty and Government (Providence, RI: Standard, 1916), 7–31, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b21989;view=1up;seq=7. The end of the eighteenth
Source: Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People, ed. W. B. Hale (New York and Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1913),
Chapter 1: Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft EVERYBODY is talkin’ these days about Tammany men growin’ rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and
CHAPTER 8. PARTY GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES [Wilson begins the chapter with an extended history of Whig theory in England.] … Just because, therefore, there is nowhere else in
… Nothing is more true than that excess of every kind is followed by reaction; a fact which should be pondered by reformer and reactionary alike. We are face to
The conscience of the people, in a time of grave national problems, has called into being a new party, born of the nation’s awakened sense of justice. We of the
There is one other proposed reform that has been associated with the new methods of initiative, referendum and recall,[1] though not necessarily involving them or involved in them. I mean
ADOPTED by a CONVENTION of WOMEN VOTERS assembled in the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago on June 5, 6, and 7, 1916 Miss Anne Martin, Nevada, Chairman Miss Ella Abeel, Illinois, Secretary
The great issue before the American people today is the control of government and industry by private monopoly. For a generation the people have struggled patiently, in the face of
