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The image that corresponds most closely to the democracy’s vision of society is a social atomism; the atoms themselves being simple and perfectly interchangeable are suitably governed by a few majestic generalities

..always suspect the allegation of special circumstances to be a cover for inequality, and they reject inequality in turn because it is the source of these complexities that impede the simple rule of law
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contemporary politics will continue to be dominated by an intellectual authority derived from the understanding of History, which has become legitimized by the rational empirical methodology of the social sciences. The doctrine of History has established the measure and meaning of Western man in the twentieth century
— May 18, 2025 09:48AM
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Progressivism, as a political movement, attempted to unify the sacred and secular (church and state), public and private (community and individual), or government and civil society, through the concept of the state. The state becomes the vehicle for the administration of progress.
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Thus, Progressives (liberal and conservative) were united in their view, derived from Hegel, that the organic or rational state must replace the social compact, or constitutionalism. They were united in their view that rights and freedom were not natural or individual but social and dependent on historical development.
— May 17, 2025 05:08PM
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Progressive intellectuals had come to understand natural laws only in terms of science, not ethics or morality. It was for this reason that many Progressive intellectuals, including Woodrow Wilson, would insist that the American Founders had wrongly derived moral and political authority from what they (the Founders) had thought to be natural laws of science
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as Theodore Lowi noted, such “government is almost impossible to limit. Liberalism tends to universalize the scope and responsibility of government, and science then makes the liberal argument almost unassailable.” This explains, Lowi observed, “why legislation has grown broader and broader in scope, has become more and more abstract in definition, and is more and more universal in its applicability.”
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As Fiorina has observed, “Congress maintains a federal bureaucracy deliberately organized to make it permeable to congressional intervention—not only to the chamber as a whole, but to subgroups and even individuals. So long as an agency cooperates when members make specific requests, it is unlikely to suffer long-term losses no matter how poor its performance.”
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within the legislatures, public deliberation and lawmaking has given way to delegation of authority to those administrative bodies capable of utilizing the expertise of those trained in the scientific method, or the technical rationality of the now authoritative social sciences, in solving the problems of modern society
— May 17, 2025 04:45PM
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Tocqueville’s opinion, the Economists or Physiocrats were forerunners of those socialist thinkers who called for “the unlimited rights of the State.” He believed that “socialism and centralization thrive on the same soil; they stand to each other as the cultivated to the wild species of a fruit.” Tocqueville’s theoretical analysis of the concept of centralization required bringing to light the development of the m
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it has become clear in light of what occurred in the wake of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that the rights and duties of citizenship, and their enforcement in the courts and bureaucracies, could only be understood on the basis of the Progressive understanding of history and the acceptance of the moral authority of the administrative state.
— May 17, 2025 11:54AM
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