Jeffersonian Republicanism and Hamiltonian Federalism in the Progressive Era: Herbert Croly and the Struggle for Ideology.

Abstract

The paper discusses how the ideologies of Jeffersonian republicanism and Hamiltonian federalism appeared, took shape and influenced the thought of Herbert Croly, one of the most important public intellectuals of the Progressive era. In order to offer novel solutions to the problems that America faced in the late 19th/early 20th century, Herbert Croly underlined two of the most important and permanent elements in the American political tradition, namely the dualism between federalism and republicanism and the debate over the role of government in a popular state.