People's Welfare Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: People's Welfare Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780807846117

ISBN-10: 0807846112

ISBN-13: 9780807846117

Edition: 1996

Authors: William J. Novak

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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. InThe 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 individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.474

William J. Novak is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.



Preface


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


Conclusion: The Invention of American Constitutional Law


Notes


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