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Author Novak, William J., 1961-

Title The people's welfare : law and regulation in nineteenth-century America / William J. Novak
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages)
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-373) and index
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Subject Law -- United States -- History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Legal Services.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
Recht
Recht.
Regulering.
Geschichte 1800-1900.
86.10 history of law, law of different countries, areas and peoples.
15.85 history of America.
Law -- United States -- History.
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807863653
9780807863657