06-05-2015, 07:50 AM
(06-05-2015, 12:18 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: We had a huge expansionist nation at the time.
We did, but he definitely did a lot of things to centralize the government. He was really just continuing a trend that had been going on for 5o years at that point, but he was pretty proficient at it. It always interests me that as our country grew, our tendency was to place more and more power in Washington instead of in the territories/states.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
