The people shall judge
Subtitle: readings in the formation of American policy.
By: Selected and edited by the staff, Social Sciences 1, the College of the University of Chicago.
Contributors: University of Chicago. College.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- History -- Sources.; United States -- Politics and government -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: Primary source documents are arranged by important decisions that were made in the course of American history. Topics include: Authority and liberty in Colonial America, Democracy and aristocracy in the New Republic, Economic problems of the new republic, constitutional probalems of the new republic, the nature of equalitarian society, public education, moral responsibility and the individual, controversy over the nature of the federal union, westward expansion and sectional conflict. In vol. 2 topics include: social criticism in the industrial age, the agrarian revolt, the progressive movement, federal efforts to maintain competition, American foreign policy, what is the proper role for government, government policy for business, government policy for labor, an economic bill of rights, civil liberties and loyalty since 1919.