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Laissez-faire Theory in Presidential Messages during the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

R. M. Havens
R. M. Havens
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Baldwin-Wallace College
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During the past decade the rapid spread of governmental activities into new fields and their extension within the fields that had previously been entered have increased the attention always given to the question of the legitimate sphere of activity for the Federal Government. There has been a widespread assumption that throughout the nineteenth century with only insignificant exceptions this country followed a policy of laissez-faire. From this assumption many people have proceeded to argue that in the past decade the American people have suddenly turned from the tradition which made this the greatest industrial nation of the world and have adopted a course which leads away from the “American way of life.”

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 1 , supplement S1: The Tasks of Economic History , December 1941 , pp. 86 - 95
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1941

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References

1 Richardson, James D., Messages and Papers of the Presidents, New York, Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897, I, 318Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., II, 552.

3 Ibid., II, 760.

4 Ibid., IV, 1561.

5 Ibid., II, 760.

6 Ibid., III, 1012 and V, 2349.

7 Ibid., XI, 5165–5176.

8 Ibid., XI, 5175.

9 Ibid., II 550–551.

10 Ibid., IV, 1522.

11 Ibid., III, 1143–1144.

12 Ibid., IV, 1767.

13 Ibid., VI, 2498–2499.

14 Ibid., II, 667–668.

15 Ibid., II, 669.

16 Ibid., II, 559–560 and 581–582.

17 Ibid., II, 603, 665, 752, and 941.

18 Ibid., III, 1064.

19 Ibid., V, 2203 and 2411.

20 Ibid., IX, 4008–4009; IX, 4256; X, 4831; XI, 5559.

21 Ibid., II, 570 and 587.

22 Ibid., III, 1046–1056.

23 Ibid., III, 1393–1394.

24 Ibid., VI, 2558.

25 Ibid., VI, 2824.

26 Ibid., VII, 3302.

27 Ibid., IX, 4065.

28 Ibid., XII, 5624.

29 Ibid., IX, 3989 and 4299.

30 Ibid., I, 341.

31 Ibid., X, 4992–4993 and XI, 5554.

32 Ibid., V, 2260.

33 Ibid., XI, 5173.

34 Ibid., X, 4980.

35 Ibid., XI, 5486.

36 Ibid., VII, 3184.