Woodrow Wilson's Constitutional Government (1908)
Dec. 31, 2011
Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton University when he wrote this book. It was a thinly disguised campaign tract. He had hoped to get the Democrats' nomination for President in 1908. Instead, William Jennings Bryan got it for the third time.
This book justified the Progressive's anti-Constitutional agenda of federal power over the economy. He argued that the Constitution had been written in the era of Isaac Newston. Newton's system was mechanical, Wilson argued. In contrast, we live under the authority of Charles Darwin. Darwin has moved scientific thought from the imagery of impersonal mechanical devices to the imagery of personal organic beings. The Constitution is not a machine. It is an evolving structure. If invoked, this theory would remove the Constitution's limits on the federal government. This is what has happened since 1908.
The book is here to download for free Constitutional Government.