Conservative Manifesto

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As Conservative Manifesto ( Conservative Manifesto ) the position paper is to address to the People of the United States designated (Address to the people of the United States) a bipartisan coalition that in 1937 in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was formed.

background

During the Great Depression of the 1930s , another recession occurred in 1937 , also known as the Roosevelt Recession . This is due to the belief that Roosevelt's economic and social reforms under the New Deal resulted in this.

The Democratic Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina was opposed to the New Deal and feared that by America "on the path to collectivism " located and exhorted his colleagues accordingly to stop it, "doing nothing while America down drifts the inevitable gulf of collectivization" . He urged them to "give the entrepreneurship a chance" because then he would give them the "guarantee of a happy and prosperous America."

Because of the recession, Bailey and many other Southern Democrats formed an alliance with "frustrated Republicans and Democrats", including Burton K. Wheeler and Arthur H. Vandenberg , - alongside Bailey, the second author of the manifesto - to oppose further reforms. As they feared being punished by the parties for their disloyalty, they drafted their own alternative economic stimulus program: the Conservative Manifesto .

Meaning of the manifesto

According to historian John Robert Moore , the Manifesto gave ammunition to the Conservatives in an attempt to "hold back and later dismantle" New Deal reforms. Historian David M. Kennedy believes that the Manifesto is the foundation of a "new conservative ideology" which is one of the "enduring legacies of the 1930s". Douglas Carl Abrams sees the cooperation as the reason for the emergence of a “sustainable two-party system” in the southern states , which until then had been absolutely dominated by the Democrats ( Solid South ). This should be shown, for example, in support for the conservative Republican Jesse Helms in Senate elections. Helms was a Senator for North Carolina from 1973 to 2003.

Content of the manifest

The explanation required:

  1. a change in taxes on capital gains and untaxed gains to exempt investment fonts.
  2. reducing government spending and advocating for a balanced budget.
  3. an end to coercion and violence in the relationship between workers and capital.
  4. Resistance to the government entering into “unnecessary” competition with private companies.
  5. the realization that private investment and business require a fair return.
  6. Security for completed loans.
  7. Lowering taxes or, if this seems impossible at the moment, advocating that there are no further increases.
  8. Respect for state rights and local self-government except where this is proven to be inadequate.
  9. economic and not political aid for the unemployed, with maximum responsibility at the local level.
  10. Trust in the American government and economic system.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c North Carolina History Project: The Conservative Manifesto . Retrieved April 28, 2014
  2. ^ A b c d LewRockwell.com : Taking on FDR: Senator Josiah Bailey and the 1937 Conservative Manifesto . Article by Troy Kickler dated December 13, 2006. Retrieved April 28, 2014