American Political Parties and Ordered Liberty
ABSTRACT
Conferees investigated the role of parties in maintaining a system of ordered liberty, beginning with Edmund Burke, but primarily through readings on the development of the American party system from the Founding to the 2016 presidential election.
READING LIST
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Select Works of Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America
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By Edmund Burke
Compiled and with a Foreword and Notes by Francis Canavan
This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.
Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’ complaints of British policy, including…
Additional Readings
Banning, Lance, eds. Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2004. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/875/63976 (accessed October 6, 2009).
Pestritto, Ronald J. and William J. Atto, eds. American Progressivism. New York: Lexington Books, 2008.
1852 Free Soil Party Convention. “1852 Free Soil Party Platform.” Angelfire.com. http://www.angelfire.com/indie/ourcampaigns/1852.html (June 23, 2018).
1856 Democratic Convention. “1856 Democratic Party Platform.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29576 (June 23, 2018).
1860 Democratic Party Convention. “1860 Democratic Party Platform.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29577 (June 23, 2018).
Burke, Edmund. Further Reflections on the Revolution in France. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992.
Clinton, Hillary. “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 28, 2016.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=118051 (June 24, 2018).
Committee on Political Parties, American Political Science Association. “Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System.” The American Political Science Review XLIV, no. 3, Part 2 (September 1950): v-xi and 1-99.
Connelly, William F. Jr., “Partisan, Polarized, Yet Not Dysfunctional?” In The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, Seventh Edition, edited by John C. Green, Daniel J. Coffey, and David B. Cohen, 89-106. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Constitutional Union Party Convention of 1860. “Constitutional Union Party Platform of 1860.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29571 (June 23, 2018).
Democratic Party Convention (Breckinridge Faction) 1860. “Democratic Party Platform (Breckinridge Faction) of 1860.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29614 (June 23, 2018).
Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist: The Gideon Edition. Edited by George W. Carey and James McClellan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.
Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume III. Edited by Roy Basler. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume IV. Edited by Roy Basler. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Rauch, Jonathan. “What’s Ailing American Politics?” The Atlantic (July-August 2016): 52-58, 60, and 62-63. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/ (accessed June 25, 2018).
Republican Convention of 1856. “Republican Party Platform of 1856.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29619 (June 23, 2018).
Republican Convention of 1860. “Republican Party Platform of 1860.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29620 (June 23, 2018).
Stephens, Alexander H. Alexander H. Stephens, in Public and Private. Edited by Henry Cleveland. Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1866.
Taft, William Howard. Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913.
Trump, Donald J. “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21, 2016.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=117935 (June 24, 2018).
Whig Convention of 1844. “Whig Party Platform of 1844.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25852 (June 23, 2018).
Whig Convention of 1848. “Whig Party Platform of 1848.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25855 (June 23, 2018).
Whig Convention of 1852. “Whig Party Platform of 1852.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25856 (June 23, 2018).
Whig Convention of 1856. “Whig Party Platform of 1856.” The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25857 (June 23, 2018).
Wilson, Woodrow. Constitutional Government in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1908.