The Decline of the American Republic

INDEX

Adams, John, 174

Administration, the, defined, 8–9;

control of, 23–25; 155–156

Agora, 12,13

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), 90–91, 104

Agricultural Department, expenditures compared, 118

Aldrich, Nelson W., 114

American Federation of Labor, 127

American Revolution, 5, 20

Andreae, Johann Valentin, 60, 146

An Economic Program for American Democracy, 96

A New Deal, 52

A Planned Society, 51

Athens, Republic of, 12–13

Babeuf, François Noel, 62

Bacon, Sir Francis, 60, 146

Bakunin, Mikhail, 18

Beard, Charles A., 37–38, 53, 86

Bevan, Aneurin, 71

Big government, 6, 21, 22, 107

Bill of Rights, American, 18, 23, 26, 169

Black, Hugo, 100

Blithedale Romance, 70

Borrowing, government, 96, 97, 115–116, 139–140, 144–145, 162–163, 168–169

Bourne, Randolph, 7

Brandeis, Louis D., 91, 100

Bricker Amendment, 169–170

Bricker, John W., 170

Bridges-Byrd Amendment, 167–168

Bridges, Styles, 168

Brisbane, Albert, 69, 75

Bromfield, Louis, 61

Brook Farm, 69–70, 146

Bulganin, Nikolai, 147, 157

Bush, Dr. Vannevar, 72

Butler, Pierce, 100

Byrd, Harry, 168

Cabet, Etienne, 62–63, 146

Campanella, Thomas, 60

Cardozo, Benjamin N., 91

Carlyle, Thomas, 70

Carnegie Institution, 72

Cataline, 150–151

Catechism of Industry, 63

Channing, William Ellery, 69

Charlemagne, 63

Chase, Stuart, 52–55, 95, 146

Child Labor Case, 107fn.

Civis Romanus, 14

Columbia University, 150

Comitia, 13

Commerce Department, expenditures compared, 118

Communist Manifesto, 74

Comte, Auguste, 65–67

Conant, Dr. James B., 71

Constitution, U. S. (see U. S. Constitution)

Daily Worker, 71

Dana, Charles A., 69

Day, William R., 107fn.

Debs, Eugene V., 76

Declaration of Independence, 173–176

Democratic Platform of 1932, 108

Depression of 1929, 11, 44–49, 76, 89–90, 136–137, 142

no recovery from, 126–129

Dewey, John, 60

“Division of Power” in America, 25–29, 31, 42–43, 78–79

Douglas, William O., 100

Downey, Sheridan, 50

Dwight, John S., 69

Education, government invasion of, 122–123

Edward VII, 19–20

Egghead, defined, 61

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 130, 140–141, 153, 164, 168

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 69, 70

Encyclopedia of World Politics, 148

Enfantin, Barthélemy, 64, 65

Engels, Frederick, 75

Evening Post, N. Y., 69

Expenditures, government, 32, 96, 115, 118–125, 128–130, 139–140, 162–163

Farms, government support of, 124

Federal Council of Churches, 65

Federalist, The, 34

Field, Stephen J., 106

Fourier, Charles, 68–70, 146

France, republicanism in, 15–17

Frankfurter, Felix, 100, 112–113, 143

Franklin, Benjamin, 174, 176, 177

French Revolution, 15

Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co. Case, 111–112

Fuller, Margaret, 69

Fuller, Melville W., 107fn.

Garrett, Garet, 4

“General welfare” clause, 101–105, 113–116

George III, 173

Gladstone, William, 176

Glass, Carter, 127

Globalism, 145

Godwin, Parke, 69

Godwin, William, 18

Government, American system of, 4, 11, 16, 23–31, 42–43, 78–80, 128–130, 142–144, 155, 159–160

Government, as an evil, 5–6

defined, 8–9

as apparatus of power, 9–10

tyranny of, 23

limitations on in America, 25–31, 155

Grant, Ulysses S., 68–69

Great Britain, parliamentary government in, 18–21; 23–24

Great Depression, the (see Depression of 1929)

Greeley, Horace, 68–69, 75

Guffey Coal Act, 91, 111

Hamilton, Alexander, 33, 34, 102–103

Hansen, Alvin H., 96–97

Harvard University, 72, 96, 150

Harlan, John M., 107fn.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 69

Health, Education & Welfare Department, expenditures compared, 118

Henry VIII, 59

Hitler, Adolf, 128, 138, 147, 157, 158

Holmes, Oliver W., 91

Hoover, Herbert, 48, 49, 90, 96, 128

Hopkins, Harry, 143

House Committee on Government Operations, 121–122

Hughes, Charles Evans, 41, 100, 111–112

Hull, Cordell, 114

Hunter, Robert, 150–151

Hythloday, Raphael, 59

Income Tax Amendment, 32, 40, 84–86, 114–116, 167

Industrial System, 63

“Interstate Commerce” clause, 101, 105–107, 110–113, 116

Jay, John, 34

Jefferson, Thomas, 33, 103–104, 154, 174–175, 176

Kautsky, Karl, 75

Korean War, casualties, 130

Kropotkin, Peter, 18

Labor Department, expenditures compared, 118

Lagardelle, 151

Laski, Harold, 74

Lee, Richard Henry, 174

Lenin, Nikolai, 56, 147, 148, 149

Lesseps, Ferdinand De, 64

Lincoln, Abraham, 35–36, 154

Livingston, Robert, 174

Locke, John, 175

Long, Huey, 50

Lowell, James Russell, 70

Madison, James, 33, 103, 154

Magna Charta, 18

Marshall, John, 33

Marx, Karl, 56, 58, 67, 71, 73–75, 146

McReynolds, James C., 111

Militarism, 145, 161–162, 164

Mill, John Stuart, 67, 75

Miller, Samuel F., 36

Montesquieu, Baron de, 33

More, Sir Thomas, 59–60

Murphy, Frank, 100

Mussolini, Benito, 91, 147, 157, 158

Napoleon, 16

Nation, 71

National Recovery Act (NRA), 41, 49, 90–91

New Christianity, 63

“New Era,” 47–48

New Deal, 5, 47, 49, 50, 54, 56, 93, 99, 110, 163

New Republic, 52, 71

Nomen Latium, 14

Northern Securities Co. Case, 107fn.

Oppenheimer, Dr. Robert, 71

Payne, Sereno, 114

Peabody, Elizabeth, 69

Peron, 157

Planned Economy, the, 51–56, 87–88, 95

Plato, 59, 67, 71, 146

President, Office of, expenditures compared, 119

Princeton University, 150

Prohibition Amendment, 40

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 18

Reed, Stanley, 100

Republic of Plato, 59

Revolution, 150

Ripley, George, 69

Roberts, Owen J., 104–105

Robespierre, 151

Roerich, Nicholas, 65

Roman Republic, 13–15

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5, 33, 41, 48–49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 79, 90, 92, 95–96, 97, 98–101, 108–109, 127–128, 130, 136, 143, 161, 162;

quoted on limited government, 38–40

“Rotten Boroughs” (in England), 20

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 62

Russian communism, spread of, 131

St. Simon, Count Henri de, 63–65

Scott, Howard, 50

Shakespeare, William, 64

Shelley, Percy B., 70

Sherman, Roger, 174

Sinclair, Upton, 50.

Slaughter House cases, 36–37

Slavery, 36

Socialism, and American Constitution, 81–87, 98–99;

in England, 19–20;

in America, 50–56, 75–80, 94–97, 116–117, 119–125, 129, 134–135, 141–145, 153–154, 157

Socrates, 13

Sorel, Georges, 151

Soule, George, 51–52, 95

Stalin, 128, 138, 147–149, 157

Standard Oil Trust, 107

State, the, defined, 7–9;

in Great Britain, 18;

controlled in America, 42–43

States, American, sovereignty of, 27–29

Sugar Trust Case, 107fn.

Sun, N. Y., 69

Supreme Court of U. S., 36, 49, 81, 91, 99, 101, 104, 105–106, 107fn., 110–114, 129, 152, 154;

packing of, 85, 99–101, 139;

proposed amendment on decisions of, 166

Sutherland, George, 100

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 94, 120–121

The Revolution Was, 4

Thomas, Norman, 76

Thoreau, Henry, 69

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 34–35

Townsend, Dr. Francis, 50

Transcendental Club, 69

Tribune, N. Y., 68, 69, 75

Trotsky, Leon, 149

Truman, Harry, 128, 130, 140–141, 162

Tugwell, Rexford G., 72, 143

Unemployment, 127–128, 161

United Nations, 167

U. S. Constitution, 16, 19, 20–21, 25–26, 28–31, 32–43, 79, 81–88, 89, 98–109, 110–117, 122, 129, 134, 138, 142–144, 152, 153, 158–160, 165–166, 176–179;,

text of, with amendments, 181–204

Utopia, 59–60

Van Devanter, Willis, 100

Vassar College, 150

Wallace, Henry A., 65, 71, 72, 91, 143

Washington, George, 33, 174, 177

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 70

Wilson, Edmund, 52

Wilson, Woodrow, 114

Wordsworth, William, 70

World War II, casualties, 130, 153