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yeah that's a great question and %uh it's %uh
why it all changed at that time is %uh you know you could write volumes on %uh
and not get the and not get to the bottom of it but i do think the progressives
were %uh
%uh a key role I mean a lot of people think that %uh seem to think when they think about how
the presidency grew that it was inevitable that %uh you know broad changes in broadcast
technology and in material conditions and so on
made this
made it inevitable that the office would take on broader powers so it's almost like a marxian
sort of you know
changing
material conditions lead to a different
political institution and i think there's something to that but but %uh i think when you look
at the progressives
you you start to recognize how
important ideology was they were very self-consciously
opposed to the framers model of checks and balances and in particular to %uh
what what the framers to the framers hostility towards executive power
and a
in contrast with the role that the framers saw much more
unromantic and businesslike role for the president where the president is
mainly supposed to take care that the laws are faithfully executed
the progressives
wanted well herbert crawley
%uh described
teddy roosevelt once as a %uh
a sledge hammer in the cause of national righteousness
this this was their vision of the presidency it was %uh
you know a powerful force
for accumulating power
and %uh promoting reform
and so they %uh they were
able to take advantage of a couple of %uh
big crises %uh a couple of world wars and a great depression
and by the when you come by the time you come out of world war two and into the
%uh semi permanent emergency of the cold war you have an office that is vastly different
from what i think even hamilton envisioned