Welcome to the Hillsdale College Online Courses podcast.

I'm Jeremiah Regan.

And I'm Juan Davos.

We are back with The Great American Story, a Land of Hope.

Lecture 13 today, becoming a world power.

So we see Dr. McLeigh's point about America experiencing a change after the Civil War

from the country of the founding with its political theory and its understanding of politics

and justice and the more modern American ideas that emerged after the Civil War play out in the

realm of foreign policy. In the founding and in the early republic, the idea was that government is

for the protection of its own people, its own citizens, lives, liberty, and property,

and that we should not rule others without their consent,

which meant we did not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy, as John Quincy Adams says.

We did not go interfere in the governing of other peoples.

We used the government to protect our own people.

And this starts happening a lot because we've talked in previous episodes about having an understanding of

justice and in what that means and the progressives they have a different view of justice,

a different understanding of America and what it means to be an American. And that starts

affecting their foreign policy. Woodrow Wilson is elected in 1812,

and he is a progressive and brings a different understanding of nature and of constitutionalism,

and he's very overt about it, and starts changing how America interacts with other countries

around the world. Even before the election of Wilson, we saw

the different philosophy put into practice in the Spanish-American War, in which America in 1898

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