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because of the great changes taking place in the new urban
industrial society, and partly because of the tremendous influx of
immigrants. The aim of social reform was to help the poor achieve
the American dream — a dream that depended upon assimilation into
the dominant culture and acceptance of its values.
According to historian Richard Hofstadter, the traditional
liberal American impulse is to "broaden the concept of democracy
to include those who could benefit from the great American bonanza
and then to humanize its workings and help heal its casualties."9
Democracy appears to be an evolutionary process rather than a goal
that is ever really achieved, and to the extent that the reforms
were an attempt to restore the old social order to political life,
the democratic thrust was also conservative in nature.
The Protestant belief system inherent in the background of the
reformers had an impact on what they fought, how they fought it,
and what they were seeking to achieve. Even the motivation for
dismantling the Southern Pacific machine was that it was viewed as
an outward sign of an inward evil that needed to be rooted out of
society in order for the "kingdom of God" to be built and
sustained. The first attacks on the SP were, in fact, made by a
group of local clergymen concerned about the "unhealthy indigent
population" who worked for the railroad.10 Their motivation —
reflecting the social wing of the Progressive movement — was the
9Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform. (New York: Vintage
Books, 1955), p. 18.
10George Mowry, op cit. . p. 102.
Object Description
| Title | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter, 1850-1990 (3a of 3) |
| Description | Xandra Kayden. The Los Angeles past as it approaches the future: Policy Clinic report. Claremont, California: The Claremont Graduate School, The Center for Politics and Policy, Spring 1990. PART OF A SERIES: A critical component of the Commission's investigation centered on the idea that governance of the LAPD was shared between the Office of the Chief of Police, an administrative body, and the Board of Police Commissioners, a citizen body. To better understand the dynamic between these two entities, the staff of Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe researched the history of the Los Angeles City Charter, focusing primarily on its provisions regarding the distribution of power and the structure and organization of the LAPD. Included in the series are reproductions of reports, dissertations, article clippings, excerpts from city documents, and charter amendments related to the charter's conception and development over time. The series also includes several summaries of expert witness interviews regarding the effectiveness of this structure. |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1850/1938; 1953; 1955; 1960/1979; 1983/1986; 1988; 1990 |
| Creator | Kayden, Xandra |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Claremont Graduate School. Center for Politics and Policy |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Claremont, California, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1990 Spring |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 50 p. |
| Format (aat) | reports |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe |
| File | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter |
| Box and folder | box 21, folder 6, item 1 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box21-06-01 |
Description
| Title | LA past as it approaches the future, p. 12 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | because of the great changes taking place in the new urban industrial society, and partly because of the tremendous influx of immigrants. The aim of social reform was to help the poor achieve the American dream — a dream that depended upon assimilation into the dominant culture and acceptance of its values. According to historian Richard Hofstadter, the traditional liberal American impulse is to "broaden the concept of democracy to include those who could benefit from the great American bonanza and then to humanize its workings and help heal its casualties."9 Democracy appears to be an evolutionary process rather than a goal that is ever really achieved, and to the extent that the reforms were an attempt to restore the old social order to political life, the democratic thrust was also conservative in nature. The Protestant belief system inherent in the background of the reformers had an impact on what they fought, how they fought it, and what they were seeking to achieve. Even the motivation for dismantling the Southern Pacific machine was that it was viewed as an outward sign of an inward evil that needed to be rooted out of society in order for the "kingdom of God" to be built and sustained. The first attacks on the SP were, in fact, made by a group of local clergymen concerned about the "unhealthy indigent population" who worked for the railroad.10 Their motivation — reflecting the social wing of the Progressive movement — was the 9Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform. (New York: Vintage Books, 1955), p. 18. 10George Mowry, op cit. . p. 102. |
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