The people's welfare : law and regulation in nineteenth-century America
This study refutes the vision of the USA's stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety and health, political economy and property, and morality. Challenging the myth of individualism, the author explores the commitment to public duty.
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1996
History
x, 396 pages ; 25 cm.
9780807822920, 9780807846117, 0807822922, 0807846112
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Governance, police, and American liberal mythology
The common law vision of a well-regulated society
Public safety : fire and the relative right of property
Public economy : the well-ordered market
Public ways : the legal construction of public space
Public morality : disorderly houses and demon rum
Public health : quarantine, noxious trades, and medical police
The invention of American constitutional law