The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History)

by WilliamJ.Novak (Author)

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  1996

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  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.