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Compromise of 1850 --- Fugitive slave law of 1850 --- Wilmot proviso, 1846 --- Political parties --- History --- United States --- Politics and government --- 1815-1861 --- Slavery --- Antislavery movements --- Democratic Party (U.S.) --- Political participation --- Whig Party (Great Britain) --- Free-Soil Party --- Massachusetts --- Ohio --- New York (State) --- Political parties - United States - History --- United States - Politics and government - 1841-1845 --- United States - Politics and government - 1845-1849
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Investigation and Responsibility deals with the extension of social responsibility in the American states during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Lord Bryce questioned the reality of American belief in laissez faire, and recent work has reinforced these doubts. Professor Brock makes a substantial contribution to this reassessment, through an examination of the activities of the agencies established at a state level for the regulation of the social environment. Using the evidence provided by the published reports of the state agencies, he argues that these activities were far more extensive then has often been thought, and indicates the ways in which they laid the foundations for modern government activity in the fields of welfare, health, safety, labour law, and economic regulation. By a detailed examination of such agencies as boards of state charities and public health, bureaus of labour statistics, and railroad commissions, Professor Brock places the extension of state responsibility in a new perspective. The book also includes a reassessment of judicial opinion and closes with an examination of the way in which experience in the states influenced the development of national policy.
History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- State governments --- Subnational governments --- United States --- Economic policy --- Social policy.
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Although Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is remembered for bringing aid and assistance to millions of unemployed and indigent Americans, surprisingly little has been written about federal relief for unemployment. The great experiment of the Federal Emergency Relief Act challenged directly the deep-seated conviction that the relief of poverty was a local responsibility, and in so doing highlighted the deficiencies of local self-government. At every stage it was the elected officials and representatives who offered the most determined opposition to humane and national relief administration. The FERA brought the United States to the brink of a fully integrated welfare system, but a reversal of policy in 1935 split welfare into national, state, and local authorities, which was to have unhappy consequences in the future. In reviewing the experience of the FERA and the New Deal, Professor Brock's book raises important questions about American attitudes toward welfare, local government, and national responsibility.
Public welfare --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Social policy --- Social conditions --- 1933-1945 --- Arts and Humanities --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- Social policy.
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Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement
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