Author: United States. Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Commission
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
Message of the President of the U. S. Transmitting the Report of the Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Commission ...
Author: United States. Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Commission
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
The Abridgment ... Containing Messages of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Message of the President of the U.S. Transmitting the Report of the Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Commission
Author: United States. Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
Book Description
William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism
Author: Kevin J. Burns
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J. Burns makes a compelling case that Taft’s devotion to the Constitution of 1787 contributed to his progressivism. In contrast to the majority of scholarship, which has viewed Taft as a reactionary conservative because of his constitutionalism, Burns explores the ways Taft’s commitment to both the Constitution and progressivism drove his political career and the decisions he made as president and chief justice. Taft saw the Constitution playing a positive role in American political life, recognizing that it created a national government strong enough to enact broad progressive reforms. In reevaluating Taft’s career, Burns highlights how Taft rejected the “laisser [sic] faire school,” which taught that “the Government ought to do nothing but run a police force.” Recognizing that the massive industrial changes following the Civil War had created a plethora of socioeconomic ills, Taft worked to expand the national government’s initiatives in the fields of trust-busting, land conservation, tariff reform, railroad regulation, and worker safety law. Burns offers a fuller understanding of Taft and his political project by emphasizing Taft’s belief that the Constitution could play a constructive role in American political life by empowering the government to act and by undergirding and protecting the reform legislation the government implemented. Moreover, Taft recognized that if the Constitution could come to the aid of progressivism, political reform might also redound to the benefit of the Constitution by showing its continued relevance and workability in modern America. Although Taft’s efforts to promote significant policy-level reforms attest to his progressivism, his major contribution to American political thought is his understanding of the US Constitution as a fundamental law, not a policy-oriented document. In many ways Taft can be thought of as an originalist, yet his originalism was marked by a belief in robust national powers. Taft’s constitutionalism remains relevant because while his principles seem foreign to modern legal discourse, his constitutional vision offers an alternative to contemporary political divisions by combining political progressivism-liberalism with constitutional conservatism.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J. Burns makes a compelling case that Taft’s devotion to the Constitution of 1787 contributed to his progressivism. In contrast to the majority of scholarship, which has viewed Taft as a reactionary conservative because of his constitutionalism, Burns explores the ways Taft’s commitment to both the Constitution and progressivism drove his political career and the decisions he made as president and chief justice. Taft saw the Constitution playing a positive role in American political life, recognizing that it created a national government strong enough to enact broad progressive reforms. In reevaluating Taft’s career, Burns highlights how Taft rejected the “laisser [sic] faire school,” which taught that “the Government ought to do nothing but run a police force.” Recognizing that the massive industrial changes following the Civil War had created a plethora of socioeconomic ills, Taft worked to expand the national government’s initiatives in the fields of trust-busting, land conservation, tariff reform, railroad regulation, and worker safety law. Burns offers a fuller understanding of Taft and his political project by emphasizing Taft’s belief that the Constitution could play a constructive role in American political life by empowering the government to act and by undergirding and protecting the reform legislation the government implemented. Moreover, Taft recognized that if the Constitution could come to the aid of progressivism, political reform might also redound to the benefit of the Constitution by showing its continued relevance and workability in modern America. Although Taft’s efforts to promote significant policy-level reforms attest to his progressivism, his major contribution to American political thought is his understanding of the US Constitution as a fundamental law, not a policy-oriented document. In many ways Taft can be thought of as an originalist, yet his originalism was marked by a belief in robust national powers. Taft’s constitutionalism remains relevant because while his principles seem foreign to modern legal discourse, his constitutional vision offers an alternative to contemporary political divisions by combining political progressivism-liberalism with constitutional conservatism.
Statutes of the United States of America
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Author: United States. President
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
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Stone & Webster Public Service Journal
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Legislative History of the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Systems
Author: David B. Schreiber
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Category : Insurance, unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Publisher:
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Category : Insurance, unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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