[Read free ebook] The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History)
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| #879231 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 1996-12-15 | 1996-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x1.02 x6.10l,1.30 | File Name: 0807846112 | 408 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Great Legal History!|By RDD|William 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 asks, “Why is this governmental regulatory practice so invisible in our traditional accounts of nineteenth-century American hist|From Library Journal|Novak (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 legal history, Novak argues, America was no
Much 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 of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individ...
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