Part I History, Ch.4 The Gilded Age through the Progressive Era
Ken I. Kersch
From: The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution
Edited By: Mark Tushnet, Sanford Levinson, Mark A. Graber
The era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to the First World War was a seminal period in which the United States grappled with fundamental questions about the relationship of the country’s eighteenth-century Constitution to a rapidly and radically transforming country. A shift was underway from a rural, agrarian “proprietary-competitive” order in which individuals worked mostly for themselves or small businesses to an industrialized, interconnected, and bureaucratized “corporate-administrative” order in which power was large-scale, remote, and depersonalized,...
