Joseph Postell is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsJohnathan O’Neill is professor of history at Georgia Southern University

“With familiar notions of political ‘conservatism’ now coming apart at the seams, it is a good time to think about those who laid much of the groundwork for it a century ago. Who better than Professors O’Neill and Postell to re-introduce us to those men and their ideas?”

• Chapter One: The Foundations of Constitutional Conservatism1.From Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution: Elihu Root2.Human Nature in the Constitution: David Jayne Hill3.Our Charter of Law and Liberty: David Jayne Hill4.The Inspiration of the Declaration: Calvin CoolidgeChapter Two: Tradition, Culture, Civilization, and Progress5.The Supports of Civilization: Calvin Coolidge6.Education: The Cornerstone of Self-Government: Calvin Coolidge7.Principle or Expedient?: George Sutherland8.The New American Revolution: Nicholas Murray ButlerChapter Three: Natural Rights and Human Nature9.The Progress of a People: Calvin Coolidge10. Address at the Celebration of the Semicentennial of the City of Birmingham, Alabama: Warren Harding11.The Revolt of the Unfit: Some Reflections on the Doctrine of Evolution : Nicholas Murray Butler12.Comments on Herbert Spencer’s “The Great Political Superstition”: Nicholas Murray Butler13.Commentary on Herbert Spen

Joseph Postell is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsJohnathan O’Neill is professor of history at Georgia Southern University

“With familiar notions of political ‘conservatism’ now coming apart at the seams, it is a good time to think about those who laid much of the groundwork for it a century ago. Who better than Professors O’Neill and Postell to re-introduce us to those men and their ideas?”

• Chapter One: The Foundations of Constitutional Conservatism1.From Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution: Elihu Root2.Human Nature in the Constitution: David Jayne Hill3.Our Charter of Law and Liberty: David Jayne Hill4.The Inspiration of the Declaration: Calvin CoolidgeChapter Two: Tradition, Culture, Civilization, and Progress5.The Supports of Civilization: Calvin Coolidge6.Education: The Cornerstone of Self-Government: Calvin Coolidge7.Principle or Expedient?: George Sutherland8.The New American Revolution: Nicholas Murray ButlerChapter Three: Natural Rights and Human Nature9.The Progress of a People: Calvin Coolidge10. Address at the Celebration of the Semicentennial of the City of Birmingham, Alabama: Warren Harding11.The Revolt of the Unfit: Some Reflections on the Doctrine of Evolution : Nicholas Murray Butler12.Comments on Herbert Spencer’s “The Great Political Superstition”: Nicholas Murray Butler13.Commentary on Herbert Spen