The LaFollette Project

[...] this country fast coming to be dominated by forces that threaten the true principle of representative government? I have no desire to stir your passions or invoke an unfair judgment. But we owe it to [...]

[...] the public mind. Between the people and the representatives there has been built up a political machine which is master of both. . . . Experience has proved it almost an idle folly to attend a [...]

[...] Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette was successful in persuading the federal government to introduce much needed [...]

[...] admission of bail...we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity... Senator Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette The Progressive, 1920 Tags: civil liberty bill of rights fighting bob [...]

[...] politicians receive more in campaign contributions from corporate lobbyists than from labor unions. Both Democratic and Republican politicians are capitalist politicians; their common core [...]

[...] men then used this power to control the political process. La Follette supported the growth of labor unions as he saw them as a check on the power of large corporations. Tags: robert la follette [...]

[...] Bob" LaFollette The Progressive, 1920 Tags: civil liberty bill of rights fighting bob lafollette [...]

[...] to counsel and admission of bail...we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity... Senator Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette The Progressive, 1920 Tags: civil liberty bill of [...]

[...] American labor unions developed during the Gilded Age when corporate managers lived in extravagant mansions while the labor force struggled to pay the rent on corporate [...]

[...] lifestyles of the rich and famous. The workforce is underpaid in order to overpay the corporate elite. Socialism developed as a political expression that explained the unjustness of the [...]