In Defense of the Founders Republic Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era

Who were the Progressive reformers arguing with? The answer might surprise you. Drawing together a veritable powerhouse of scholars from across the political spectrum, In Defense of the Founders Republic examines the historical roots of these critics as well as their potential contribution to current debates about government and role of politics and institutions in our constitutional republic. Profiles and debates across a variety of progressive-era dissenters including politicians, community activists, political scientists, and socialists create a more complete picture of the national conversation, and the development of this monumental American political era. With clear contemporary relevance, In Defense of the Founders Republic is required reading for anyone interested in the complete progressive debate.

Dr. Lonce Sandy-Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Shippensburg University, USA. He serves as the Academic Director for the US State Department's Study of the US Institute on American Politics and Political Thought, an academic institute for academics from overseas.

Dr. Jerome Mileur is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, where he taught courses on American party politics and national political development. He is the co-editor, with Sidney Milkis, of Progressivism and the New Democracy (1999), and author of The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002).

Introduction
Nicholas Murray Butler: Champion of the Anti-Progressives
Henry Jones Ford: Journalist & Scholar, Theorist &Practitioner
William Howard Taft: Constitutional Critic of Progressivism
Eugene V. Debs: Socialist Opposition to Direct Democracy
Joseph G. Cannon: Partisan Majorities and ResponsibleDemocracy
Emanuel L. Philipp: Progressivism in Wisconsin
Challenges in the Courts: Direct Democracy and RepublicanGovernment
Sara Grove, Shippensburg University
James Madison: Godfather of the Anti-Progressives
Jeffrey Sedgwick, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index