The People's Welfare,9780807822920

The People's Welfare

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ISBN13: 9780807822920
ISBN10: 0807822922
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

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 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 almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare d

Table of Contents

Preface ix
INTRODUCTION Governance, Police, and American Liberal Mythology 1(18)
CHAPTER ONE The Common Law Vision of a Well-Regulated Society
19(32)
CHAPTER TWO Public Safety: Fire and the Relative Right of Property
51(32)
CHAPTER THREE Public Economy: The Well-Ordered Market
83(32)
CHAPTER FOUR Public Ways: The Legal Construction of Public Space
115(34)
CHAPTER FIVE Public Morality: Disorderly Houses and Demom Rum
149(42)
CHAPTER SIX Public Health: Quarantine, Noxious Trades, and Medical Police
191(44)
CONCLUSION The Invention of American Constitutional Law 235(14)
Notes 249(96)
Select Bibliography 345(30)
Index 375

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