The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Studies in Legal History)
by Morton J. Horwitz
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Author: Morton J. HorwitzEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-20
ISBN: 0674903714
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Book Review: What Laissez-Faire?
Summary: 4 Stars
Laissez-Faire means live and let live. In this history by Morton Horwitz, we see that along with the rise of corporatism in America was the demise of laissez-faire through the interventionist hand of the state's judicial system:
Mill owners were allowed by government to destroy other people's property by flood;
Canals and railroads were built by seizing land through "eminent domain";
The right of juries to decide judgements for damages in tort cases was taken from them and given to judges;
Contract labor laws - "if a worker signed a contract to work for a year, and left before the year was up, he was not entitled to any wages, even for the time he had worked. But the courts at the same time said that if a building business broke a contract, it was entitled to be paid for whatever had been done up to that point".
Horwitz shows us that laissez-faire was replaced by corporatism, but he doesn't tell us that because the corporatists label their actions behind a false label, Horwitz rails against their false label rather than the actual label of corporatism that accurately describes their actions: "By the middle of the nineteenth century the legal system had been reshaped to the advantage of men of commerce and industry at the expense of farmers, workers, consumers, and other less powerful groups". Included in these other less powerful groups was the laissez-faire entrepeneur, the sole-proprietor and/or partner(s) in business who were responsible for their actions as businessmen unlike the owners of corporations who hid behind hired managers and the law that held the owners exempt. The worst fraud committed on the American people was the deeming of the corporation as an artificial person with constitutional rights.
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