A primer to progressivism- history, strategies, rules, and applications. The debate: The French revolutions social justice, redistribution, and economic equality vs American independence and Adam Smith's free market principles. Marxist government intervention, the social sciences utopia, bureaucracies, activist judges, and inequities vs the founding fathers, inalienable sovereign rights, free speech and constitution. The totalitarian socially engineered centralized political rule vs James Madison's local decentralized electoral college free society republic.