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February 15, 2011
What liberals (and liberalism) hath wrought
Topics: Political News and commentaries
Today on Uncommon Knowledge, William Voegeli, a senior editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the author of Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State, asserts that the welfare state was sold to Americans in disguise:
I think a very astute thing that Franklin Roosevelt did was to reformulate the progressive endeavor in Jeffersonian terms. Instead of saying that we are getting away from Madison's Constitution he constantly framed the New Deal project as an endeavor to update the concept of inalienable rights to the circumstances of the twentieth century.Click here for video.
Hat tip - Peter Robinson
Posted by Richard at February 15, 2011 9:45 AM
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