The Progressives' Constitution
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Session IV: The Progressives' Constitution
Dr. Ronald Pestritto, Senior Fellow, Kirby Center; Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution and Associate Professor of Political Science, Hillsdale College
Rejecting the principles of the American founders, the Progressives advanced political and moral "values" in their place. This session, emphasizing the thought of Woodrow Wilson, examines the Progressive movement and its understanding of the Constitution.
R. J. Pestritto is Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution and Associate Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College. He is a senior fellow with the Kirby Center. Dr. Pestritto earned a B.A., magna cum laude, at Claremont McKenna College, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in government at the Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, the editor of Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings, and the co-editor of American Progressivism: A Reader; Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nine¬teenth Century; and The American Founding and the Social Compact. He has also written for The Claremont Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel.
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