| − | {{cquote|One of the striking features of the last half century in America was the greatly increased attention to the scientific study of politics. In the last twenty-five years, particularly, this tendency was very clearly marked. The foundation of systematic study was laid by Francis Lieber, a German refugee, who came to America following the Revolution of 1848, and was for many years a source of inspiration in inquiry and a teacher of methods of investigation. Following Lieber came studies of the type of Mulford's "Nation" (1870), a striking illustration of the intoxicating effect of undiluted Hegelian philosophy upon the American mind.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bGHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought 1865-1917|date=1920|pages=373}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Tiffany |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/286671/refounding-america-tiffany-jones-miller |title=The Refounding of America |work=[[National Review]] |date=November 14, 2011 }}</ref>}} | + | {{cquote|One of the striking features of the last half century in America was the greatly increased attention to the scientific study of politics. In the last twenty-five years, particularly, this tendency was very clearly marked. The foundation of systematic study was laid by Francis Lieber, a German refugee, who came to America following the Revolution of 1848, and was for many years a source of inspiration in inquiry and a teacher of methods of investigation. Following Lieber came studies of the type of Mulford's "Nation" (1870), a striking illustration of the intoxicating effect of undiluted Hegelian philosophy upon the American mind.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bGHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought 1865-1917|date=1920|pages=373}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Tiffany |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/article/286671/refounding-america-tiffany-jones-miller |title=The Refounding of America |work=[[National Review]] |date=November 14, 2011 }}</ref>}} |
| | {{cquote|The individualistic ideas of the “[[Natural rights|natural right]]” school of political theory, indorsed in the Revolution, are discredited and repudiated.<ref name="Heritage" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYUmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA307|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=A History of American Political Theories|date=1903|pages=307}}</ref>}} | | {{cquote|The individualistic ideas of the “[[Natural rights|natural right]]” school of political theory, indorsed in the Revolution, are discredited and repudiated.<ref name="Heritage" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYUmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA307|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=A History of American Political Theories|date=1903|pages=307}}</ref>}} |