Liberalism in the United States
Liberalism
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled LIBERALISMIn today’s America the term “liberalism” is circulated mainly by those who pronounce it with scorn-by the political right and by academic theorists who have little else in common with the right. Yet the American nation was conceived in liberalism. The declaration of independence
(read more about Constitutional law entries here).
Some Constitutional Law Popular Entries
- Constitutional Law Outline
- Constitutional Law Outline (United States)
- Constitutional Lawyer
- Constitutional Law of India
- Constitutional Law Definition
- Constitutional Law Cases
- Constitutional Law Cases (United States)
Liberalism: 20Th Century U.S.
Introduction to Liberalism
In the U.S., positive liberalism was further extended, with such developments as the social criticism of the muckrakers, the agitation for and enactment of legislation curbing trusts and extending the suffrage to women, the trade-union movement, the “New Freedom” of President Woodrow Wilson, and the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gradually these programs, movements, and laws prepared the way and provided sanctions for government intervention in the economy. The U.S. Supreme Court, which had long maintained a sturdy defense against such intervention, heard eloquent defense for state regulation of hours and wages by both conservatives, such as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and liberals, such as Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Their opinions were accepted by the majority after 1936, when the Court sustained one act of New Deal legislation after another, asserting that individual citizens must be protected against overpowering economic groups and from disasters they have not brought on themselves. Legislative enactments provided for old-age and survivors insurance, unemployment insurance, federal control of various financial interests, minimum wages, supervision of agricultural production, and the right of labor unions to organize and bargain collectively.
Despite the metamorphosis in the philosophy of liberalism since the mid-19th century, almost all modern liberals agree that their common objective is enlargement of the individual’s opportunity to realize full potentialities.” (1)
Concept of Liberalism
In the U.S., in the context of Ideology, Public Opinion and Media, Liberalism has the following meaning: A political ideology that embraces equality, civil rights, and individual liberties. Over the past few decades, fewer Americans have self-identified as liberal than as conservative or moderate. (Source of this definition of Liberalism : University of Texas)
Liberalism
Resources
See Also
- Ideology
- Public Opinion
- Media
Resources
Notes and References
- Information about Liberalism in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia
Guide to Liberalism
Liberalism in the International Business Landscape
Definition of Liberalism in the context of U.S. international business and public trade policy: Originally, and in most of the world, the political theory of limited government and the supreme value of human or civil rights. For the economy, the theory thus implies restricting government’s functions and trusting individuals to make most decisions. In the United States, however, liberalism has come to mean advocacy of government intervention in the economy, which in part is the opposite of its original meaning.