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This 5-page paper discusses how the Progressive Party Platform of 1912 ended up leading to freedom limits and the "nanny state" we have today. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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as much as it was by corporate interests. However, according to Abrams, "corporate consolidation of the nations business had greatly impared the effectiveness of the market to allocate economic opportunities,
advantages and rewards equitably"1. When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House as President between 1901 and 1908, much of his task involved encouraging Congress to pass legislation that would
keep the corporations in check. Roosevelts writings focused on "order, duty, justice and power" but, as Abrams notes, not so much about happiness2.
We mention Theodore Roosevelt extensively in this paper because he became the backbone of the Progressive Party, a third party that sought to put Theodore Roosevelt back in the White
House. Though the Progresive Partys platform was geared toward limiting some of the excesses created through corporate America of the time, the partys 1912 platform insisted that this be done
through an almost paternalistic federal government that would offer rules and regulations to protect the people while clamping down on corporate power and, to an extent, states rights3. Furthermore, issues
such as protective tarrifs (to "equalize" competition between the Untied States and foreign countries) as well as issues such as a public health system, a "national regulation of inter-State corporations"
and limiting output4 could be seen as infringements on certain types of freedoms. We have a better understanding about the Progressive Partys limits
toward freedom by following Roosevelts beliefs. In a speech in 1910, made before a crowd outside of Osawatomie, KS, Roosevelt insisted that property rights "must henceforth be secondary to those
of the common welfare," in other words, that individuals were better served by "service to his or their fellows" rather than by bulking up their own wealth or privilige5. Roosevelt
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