ABSTRACT
Harold Laski's introduction to the United States occurred during a particularly tempestuous period in the nation's history, and any impression that was left on a visitor whose first exposure occurred during this time period and in the limited geographical area. Laski became a part of the corps of liberal scholars attached to that young journal. Laski then took up the problem of restricting governments to the business for which they had been chosen. Emergent in the past generation from pioneer individualism, and only recently become a force in world politics, America, nevertheless, seemed to Laski to be approaching "a critical era. It can never be too thoroughly emphasized that the founders of the American Constitution did not intend to create a complete system of government. In his writings Walter Lippmann continued to adhere to a more traditional American progressivism that Laski found too conservative for his leftward evolving brand of modern "liberalism,' which had by 1931 embraced Marxism.
