Pasley "Midget on Horseback: American Indians and the history of the American state" Caroline F. Gautham Rao "Sailors’ Health and National Wealth" Marine hospitals in the early republic Jeffrey L. Edling "When Johnny Comes Marching Home…from the Bank" War and public finance in America, from the U.S.-Mexican War to the present. John "Why Institutions Matter" Rewriting the history of the early republic Sean Patrick Adams "The Tao of John Quincy Adams" Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic Max M. Fritz "America's Unknown Constitutional World" Richard R. Sassi “Great Questions of National Morality” Lyman Beecher on religion and politics in America Ray Raphael "Instructions" The people's voice in revolutionary America BONUS ARTICLE: Christian G. Newman "Faith in the Ballot" Black shadow politics in the antebellum North Jonathan D. Greenberg "The Politics of Martial Manhood" Or, why falling off a horse was worse than falling off the wagon in 1852 Reeve Huston "What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy" Reengaging the American democratic tradition Richard S. CONTENTS Jim Cullen "The Wright Stuff" Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and the blackened reputation of Abraham Lincoln Amy S. Available here as originally published, in the form of a pdf print-out. Accompanied by "Myths of the Lost Atlantis: A blog series dedicated to Phil Lampi" (posts by guests and myself on scholarly and popular misconceptions about early American politics), URL. Originally published in "Common-Place" 9 (Oct. Ceaser described a public philosophy “as a core set of values embodied in long term opinion that influences public policy over a full era”. Further, Lowi described how a public philosophy is a way of understanding the significance of public policies, i.e., New Deal Policies on society. Lowi and Beer further defined how a public philosophy was a transforming idea that governs public opinion by utilizing Roosevelt’s New Deal to explain an example of a change in public philosophy, in which a federal government is strengthened, replacing the older idea of an inactive government. Political scientists Theodore Lowi and Samuel Beer defined a public philosophy “as a synonym for what social scientists in American politics called ideology”. Ceaser who reviewed the concept that was first used by the journalist Walter Lippman in his book The Public Philosophy that was concerned about competing philosophies with liberalism against its adversary, such as Marxism. A public philosophy has been defined by James W. American politics, I utilize Terry Bimes’ definition of populism, “as a mode of rhetorical appeal, one that pits the president and the people against a corrupt special interest”. Bimes, in her discussion of how Jackson emphasized the use of populism, stressed that all parts of the government ultimately received their legitimacy from the people and that the government should pursue the common good and prevent those with particular interests from dominating the political process. According to Bimes, the origins of presidential populism originated with Andrew Jackson, were not invented by him, but were “combined with elements of current theories and practices of presidential leadership and governance”. Andrew Jackson utilized a public philosophy of populism, defined by Terry Bimes in her dissertation, “as a mode of rhetorical appeal, one that pits the president and the people against a corrupt special interest”.
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