The other's America notes on Rogers Smith's Civic Ideals

Studies in American Political Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 186-197

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1. For a more sustained application of this view, see James A. Morone, "The Bias of American Politics: Rationing Health Care in a Weak State," University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1992) 140, no. 5: 1923-38.
2. A bit of truth in criticizing: I chaired the committee that awarded the J. David Greenstone prize to Civic Ideals. For the award citation itself, see Clio: Newsletter of Politics and History 9 (1998).
3. Alexis de Tocqueville, de la Democratie en Amerique (Paris: GF-Flamarion, 1981), 130 (my translation). For the standard translation, see Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Garden City: Doubleday, 1969), 509.
4. Alexis de Tocqueville, de la Democratie en Amerique (Paris: GF-Flamarion, 1981), 130 (my translation). For the standard translation, see Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Garden City: Doubleday, 1969), 509.
5. The five word summary is from Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword (New York: Norton, 1996), 31.
6. William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (1925; New York: A New Directions Book, 1956), 208. In a sense, this is a poetic version of Civic Ideals. W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in American (New York: Athenium, 1992, 722.
7. William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (1925; New York: A New Directions Book, 1956), 208. In a sense, this is a poetic version of Civic Ideals. W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in American (New York: Athenium, 1992, 722.
8. See for example, Jeffrey Rosen, "American in Thick and Thin, The New Republic (Jan. 5-12, 1998):29-36; or Jeremy Rabkin, "Elective Citizenship," The Public Interest (March 22, 1998).
9. See for example, Jeffrey Rosen, "American in Thick and Thin, The New Republic (Jan. 5-12, 1998):29-36; or Jeremy Rabkin, "Elective Citizenship," The Public Interest (March 22, 1998).
10. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson, (Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1946), 505.
11. Andrew Jackson, "Seventh Annual Address" December 7, 1835), in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, ed. James Richardson (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature, 1918) 2:1394. Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, ed. Milton Meltzer and Patricia Holland (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 31; Abraham Lincoln, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1837), in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Putnam, 1905), 148-61. For discussion, see James, A. Morone, "Race Images and American Politics: The Argument About Slavery and Its Legacy," Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998.
12. Andrew Jackson, "Seventh Annual Address" December 7, 1835), in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, ed. James Richardson (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature, 1918) 2:1394. Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, ed. Milton Meltzer and Patricia Holland (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 31; Abraham Lincoln, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1837), in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Putnam, 1905), 148-61. For discussion, see James, A. Morone, "Race Images and American Politics: The Argument About Slavery and Its Legacy," Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998.
13. Andrew Jackson, "Seventh Annual Address" December 7, 1835), in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, ed. James Richardson (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature, 1918) 2:1394. Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, ed. Milton Meltzer and Patricia Holland (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 31; Abraham Lincoln, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1837), in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Putnam, 1905), 148-61. For discussion, see James, A. Morone, "Race Images and American Politics: The Argument About Slavery and Its Legacy," Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998.
14. Andrew Jackson, "Seventh Annual Address" December 7, 1835), in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, ed. James Richardson (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature, 1918) 2:1394. Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, ed. Milton Meltzer and Patricia Holland (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 31; Abraham Lincoln, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1837), in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Putnam, 1905), 148-61. For discussion, see James, A. Morone, "Race Images and American Politics: The Argument About Slavery and Its Legacy," Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998.
15. Andrew Jackson, "Seventh Annual Address" December 7, 1835), in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, ed. James Richardson (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature, 1918) 2:1394. Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, ed. Milton Meltzer and Patricia Holland (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 31; Abraham Lincoln, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1837), in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Putnam, 1905), 148-61. For discussion, see James, A. Morone, "Race Images and American Politics: The Argument About Slavery and Its Legacy," Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998.
16. Tocqueville, de la Democratie en Amerique, 1:435-36; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1961), 323-24.
17. Tocqueville, de la Democratie en Amerique, 1:435-36; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1961), 323-24.
18. Jackson, "Farewell Address" (March 4, 1837), in Message and Papers of the Presidents, 2:1513.
19. For notes on liberalism, see inter alia, 506 n.5; 517 n.44; 639 n.16. The first of these is a fine definition of liberalism that actually implies some common ground with the critiques of liberalism such as the one I make here.
20. Benjamin Franklin, Letter to James Parker, in Archibald Kennedy, The Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the Indians to the British Interest Considered (London: E Cave, 1752), 43-45.
21. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845; New York: Norton, 1997), 62-3; Susan B Anthony, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 230.
22. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845; New York: Norton, 1997), 62-3; Susan B Anthony, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 230.
23. See James Morone, The Democratic Wish (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) chap. 7 ; and Sven Steinmo and Jon Watts, "It's the Institutions, Stupid: Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in American," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20 (1995):329-72.
24. See James Morone, The Democratic Wish (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) chap. 7 ; and Sven Steinmo and Jon Watts, "It's the Institutions, Stupid: Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in American," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20 (1995):329-72.
25. Judith Sklar, American Citizenship (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), chap. 2. I think I detect Smith's influence on his mentor's work - indeed, he is cited (as "particularly help[ful]"), see 106.
26. Lyman Beecher, "The Memory of Our Fathers" Beecher's Works (Boston: John Jewett and Co, 1852) 1:322-23. I am grateful to Gordon Wood for pointing out the ironic outcome. The Catholics did not change the American Protestant emphasis in individual conscience. Instead, the conversion went the other way. The Catholic church in the United States became quite distinctly American; members inherited the tradition of active congregations and individual conscience. Catholicism stopped being a quasi-ascriptive trait (as it often is to those born Catholic in Europe). In the United States, Catholics took to measuring their Catholicism against their conpenchant for questioning church policy.
27. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859; New York: Penguin Books, 1983), 69.
28. Morone, "Race Images and American Politics: The Argument about Slavery and Its Legacy," 43-45.
29. See Klaus J. Bade, "Immigration and Social Peace in United Germany," Daedalus (1994) 123, no. 1:85-106; Thomas Faist, "How to Define a Foreigner? The Symbolic Politics of Immigration in German Partisan Discourse, 1978-1992" ZeS Arbeitspapier Nr 12/1993, Zentrum fur Sozialpolitik, Universitat Bremen (Bremen, Germany).
30. See Klaus J. Bade, "Immigration and Social Peace in United Germany," Daedalus (1994) 123, no. 1:85-106; Thomas Faist, "How to Define a Foreigner? The Symbolic Politics of Immigration in German Partisan Discourse, 1978-1992" ZeS Arbeitspapier Nr 12/1993, Zentrum fur Sozialpolitik, Universitat Bremen (Bremen, Germany).
31. John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity," in Winthrop Papers (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1931), 3:294-95. This discussion comes from James Morone, Sin: The Moral Construction of American, in preparation.
32. John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity," in Winthrop Papers (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1931), 3:294-95. This discussion comes from James Morone, Sin: The Moral Construction of American, in preparation.
33. Sacvan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978), 11.