Source Passive – Page 15 – An Examination of Power, Governance, and Societal Dynamics

American Republic

The Rise of the Administrative State

For the first century of its...

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American City Street in the 1930s

FDR’s New Deal and the Rebirth of Regulation

When Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the...

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Financial Anxiety

The Great Depression and the Pecora Hearings

The stock market crash of 1929,...

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Seaside Resort

The Federal Reserve and the Boom-Bust Cycle

Throughout the late nineteenth and early...

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20th-Century Courtroom

Substantive Due Process and the “Lochner” Era

As the United States entered the...

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Reform Progress

The Progressive Era Response

The staggering wealth inequality and brazen...

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Sail-powered

Overseas Empire and the Insular Cases

In 1898, following a conflict with...

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Railway Station

The Gilded Age: Robber Barons, Railroads, and Monopoly

Following the bloodshed of the Civil...

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Crossroads

The Civil War’s Economic and Legal Upheaval

The American Civil War is most...

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Ornate Bank

State Constitutions and the Rise of General Incorporation

In the early decades of the...

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