Includes index.
Introduction: Progressivisim and its critics / Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University
James Madison: architect of the first founding / Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nicholas Murray Butler: universal truths and the foundations of republican institutions / Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University
Henry Jones Ford: the president and responsible democracy / Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University and Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst
William Howard Taft: the constitutionalist as critic of Progressivism / Paul M. Rego, Messiah College
Joseph G. Cannon: partisan majorities and responsible democracy / Douglas H. Harris, Loyola University Maryland
Elihu Root: balancing constitutionalism and democracy / Robert J. Lacey, Iona College
Eugene V. Debs: champion of social democracy / Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Laboratories of reform: Wisconsin and Oregon / Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University
American politics reinvented / Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst University.
In defense of the founders republic : critics of direct democracy in the Progressive Era. ISBN 9781623565770. Published by Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.