The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-century AmericaUniv of North Carolina Press, 1996 - 396 sider 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 |
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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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