Toward an American Conservatism

David E. Bernstein, George Mason University, USA Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia, USA William A. Schambra, Hudson Institute, USA W. Taylor Reveley, Longwood University, USA James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University, USA David Davenport, Stanford University, USA Gordon Lloyd, Pepperdine University, USA

Introduction; Johnathan O'Neill and Joseph Postell 1. Constitutional Conservatism During the Progressive Era: The National Association for Constitutional Government and Constitutional Review; Johnathan O'Neill 2. The Progressive Origins of Conservative Hostility to Lochner v. New York; David E. Bernstein 3. William Howard Taft and the Struggle for the Soul of the Constitution; Sidney M. Milkis 4. The Election of 1912 and the Origins of Constitutional Conservatism; William Schambra 5. William Howard Taft on America and the Philippines: Equality, Natural Rights, and Imperialism; John Grant 6. Civilization versus Modernity: The League of Nations in the Crisis of World Civilization; W. Taylor Reveley 7. 'Roaring' against Progressivism: Calvin Coolidge's Principled Conservatism; Joseph Postell 8. Rational Compromise: Charles Evans Hughes as a Progressive Originalist; James R. Stoner, Jr. 9. The Two Phases of Herbert Hoover's Constitutional Conservatism; Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport Epilogue; Charles Kesler