Woodrow Wilson and Political Moderation
From 1879 when he graduated from Princeton until the end of 1913, his first year in the White House, Woodrow Wilson studied and taught Political Science and formulated a new approach to the problems arising from industrialization and continental expansion of the United States. This program of study,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2007, Volume: 85, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-150 |
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| Summary: | From 1879 when he graduated from Princeton until the end of 1913, his first year in the White House, Woodrow Wilson studied and taught Political Science and formulated a new approach to the problems arising from industrialization and continental expansion of the United States. This program of study, reflection, and policy making was the most extensive exercise in statecraft in the history of the American Presidency. Wilson privileged historical experience, political philosophy, Calvinist theology, and the duty of educated men and women to engage in public service. Those values marked him as a historic moderate, and as such, he valued the tensions and paradoxes in the sources of his thought and in middle-class reform. The Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1913 were the first products of his statecraft. The Underwood tariff of 1914 honored tariff reduction as a promise of the Democratic Party, though Wilson rationalized the tariff as well as reducing its rates. By mid-1914, progressive reformers demanded more far-reaching reforms, and to stay ahead of his supporters, Wilson moved beyond the moderate policies he had carefully formulated during his academic career and his campaign for the Presidency. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Presbyterian history
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