关于美国政府人权主义研究
美国政府宪法的制定者明确表示，人拥有自由平等的权利，这是造物主赋予的不可剥夺的权利，不是政府赋予的（独立宣言）。政府的角色是执行这一自然的定律，同时保护公民的权利。人们可以用同样的理念来对待外交政策的问题。创始人相信，通过方的国内政策和外交政策，自然权利和财产的保护是最重要的。考虑到这一点，美国“当代外交政策可以清楚地定性为进步的。”
When drafting the United States government, the Framers of the Constitution made clear the principle that man derived his equality and unalienable rights from the Creator; not from government (Declaration of Independence). Government's role was to enforce this natural law while simultaneously protecting the rights of citizens. One could apply this same concept to matters of foreign policy. The Founders believed that through both domestic policy and foreign policy, the protection of natural rights and property was of the utmost importance. With this in mind, the United States' contemporary foreign policy can be clearly characterized as progressive.
Students of foreign policy see the underpinnings of modern day progressivism quite starkly upon their study of the 28th President, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson, a major proponent of nation-building, sought to prevent global catastrophes like World War I though peace with an aspect of permanence. He likened this peace-teaching practice to ruling a child: "we must govern as those who learn and they must obey as those who are in tutelage. [Least developed countries and their people] are children and we are men in these deep matters of government and justice" (43). Through America's governance and help, countries can transform and institute democratic regimes.
In essence, to prevent disasters like WWI, every country must replicate the United States. As Burke stated, successful nations must combine government with liberty-the spirit of obedience with the spirit of free election (43); however, before a nation fully comprehends the notion of liberty, they must have a sense of discipline. This self-control will make liberty "a thing of life and not a thing of tumult, a tonic, not an insurgent madness in the blood" (43). This can ultimately be achieved through the formation of just laws and via them, obedience, and discipline, democracy undoubtedly will rise.
From this Progressive framework, one can see how the idea of nation building, essentially uplift, emerges quite quickly. After the fortunate demise of the Soviet Union, the world was left with one superpower: the United States. Paul Kennedy comments, "Nothing has ever existed like this disparity of powera，
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