The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-century AmericaMuch of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision |
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Käyttäjän arvio - DarthDeverell - LibraryThingWilliam J. Novak’s The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth Century America explores the role of law in the early republic and how it defined public spaces and personal liberty. Novak ... Lue koko arvostelu
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Käyttäjän arvio - Not Available - Book VerdictNovak (history, Univ. of Chicago) has produced an extraordinarily important historical work on American government regulation in the 19th century. In contradiction to previous accounts of American ... Lue koko arvostelu
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Governance Police and American Liberal Mythology | 1 |
The Common Law Vision of a WellRegulated Society | 19 |
Public Safety Fire and the Relative Right of Property | 51 |
Public Economy The WellOrdered Market | 83 |
Public Ways The Legal Construction of Public Space | 115 |
Public Morality Disorderly Houses and Demon Rum | 149 |
Public Health Quarantine Noxious Trades and Medical Police | 191 |
The Invention of American Constitutional Law | 235 |
NOTES | 249 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 345 |
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| Otsikko | The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-century America Studies in Legal History: University of North Carolina Press Studies in legal history |
| Kirjoittaja | William J. Novak |
| Painos | kuvitettu |
| Kustantaja | Univ of North Carolina Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0807846112, 9780807846117 |
| Pituus | 396 sivua |
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