In 1912,
Theodore Roosevelts Progressive party platform of New Nationalism demanded the establishment of
a strong, regulatory welfare state capable of preventing corporate abuses and guaranteeing the
economic and social rights of individuals, including women. The platform contained demands for
an eight hour workday, a living wage for workers, national labor legislation, and national
healthcare. In many ways, it prefigured the later New Deal policies.
During
the same election campaign season of 1912, Woodrow Wilsons New Freedom slogan rejected the
Progressive party idea of big...
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