The people's welfare : law and regulation in nineteenth-century America.

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

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Law -- United States -- History.

Introduction - Governance, police and American liberal mythology

Chapter One - The common law vision of a well-regulated society

Chapter Two - Public safety: fire and the relative right of property

Chapter Three - Public economy: the well-ordered market

Chapter Four - Public ways: the legal construction of public space

Chapter Five - Public morality; disorderly houses and demon rum

Chapter Six - Public health: quarantine, noxious trades, and medical police

Conclusion - The invention of American constitutional law.

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