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Remarks on Taxation (1909)
Document Excerpt I desire in this connection to direct the attention of the House to the best, the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised—the taxation of incomes.
Populist Party Platform (1892)
Document Excerpt The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. . . . The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists.
The New Nationalism (1911)
Document Excerpt I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good work …. The American people are right in demanding that New Nationalism, without which we cannot hope to deal with new problems.
The Promise of American Life (1909)
Document Excerpt A numerous and powerful group of reformers has been collecting whose whole political policy and action is based on the conviction that the “common people” have not been getting the Square Deal to which they are entitled under the American system…. A considerable proportion of the American people is beginning to exhibit economic and political, as well as personal discontent….
True Americanism: Fourth of July Oration (1915)
Document Excerpt E pluribus unum – out of many one, – was the motto adopted by the founders of the Republic when they formed a union of the thirteen States…. The founders were convinced, as we are, that a strong nation could be built through federation. They were also convinced, as we are, that in America, under a free government, many peoples would make one nation. Throughout all these years we have admitted to our country and to citizenship immigrants from the diverse lands of Europe.
The Overlooked Conservative Tradition That Embraces an Executive Like Donald Trump
Studies of contemporary public opinion have shown that if most people know one thing about conservatives’ ideas about the Constitution, it is that they stand on the rock of originalism—the proposition that judges should read the Constitution by the lights of the nation’s Founders.
Conservatives and the Constitution
Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional restoration and redemption within the broader postwar American conservative movement. Conservatives and the Constitution is the first history of the political and intellectual trajectory of this foundational tradition and mobilization.
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