Democratick Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy
This volume is a collection of Leggett’s editorials and newspaper articles written during the 1830s in Jacksonian America. He is a consistent advocate of laissez-faire economic policy and limited government.
Democratic Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy, Foreword by Lawrence H. White (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1984).
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- Author: William Leggett
- Foreword: Lawrence H. White
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PART ONE: The Doctrine of Equal Rights
- TRUE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT
- THE RESERVED RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
- OBJECTS OF THE EVENING POST
- REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF LUNACY
- THE LEGISLATION OF CONGRESS
- RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
- DIRECT TAXATION
- THE COURSE OF THE EVENING POST
- CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL
- PREFATORY REMARKS
- THE SISTER DOCTRINES
- THE TRUE THEORY OF TAXATION
- STRICT CONSTRUCTION
- LEGISLATIVE INDEMNITY FOR LOSSES FROM MOBS
- THE DESPOTISM OF THE MAJORITY
- MORALS OF LEGISLATION
- THE MORALS OF POLITICS
- PART TWO: Separation of Bank and State
- BANK OF UNITED STATES
- SMALL NOTE CIRCULATION
- THE MONOPOLY BANKING SYSTEM
- UNCURRENT BANK NOTES
- FANCY CITIES
- CAUSES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS
- WHY IS FLOUR SO DEAR?
- THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS
- STRICTURES ON THE LATE MESSAGE
- THE VALUE OF MONEY
- THE WAY TO CHEAPEN FLOUR
- THE MONEY MARKET AND NICHOLAS BIDDLE
- THE PRESSURE—THE CAUSE OF IT—AND THE REMEDY
- CONNEXION OF STATE WITH BANKING
- THE CRISIS
- THE BANKRUPT BANKS
- WHAT WE MUST DO, AND WHAT WE MUST NOT
- “THE FORESIGHT OF INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE”
- THE SAFETY FUND BUBBLE
- SEPARATION OF BANK AND STATE
- THE REMEDY FOR BROKEN BANKS
- “BLEST PAPER CREDIT”
- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- THE TRUE AND NATURAL SYSTEM
- THE BUGBEAR OF THE BANK DEMOCRATS
- BANK AND STATE
- THEORY AND PRACTICE
- SEPARATION OF BANK AND STATE
- “SPECIE BASIS”
- THE NATURAL SYSTEM
- THE CREDIT SYSTEM AND THE ARISTOCRACY
- THE DIVORCE OF POLITICKS AND BANKING
- PART THREE: Abolition Insolence
- RIOT AT THE CHATHAM-STREET CHAPEL
- GOVERNOR McDUFFIE’S MESSAGE
- THE ABOLITIONISTS
- REWARD FOR ARTHUR TAPPAN
- THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
- ABOLITIONISTS
- SLAVERY NO EVIL
- PROGRESS OF FANATICISM
- AN ARGUMENT AGAINST ABOLITION REFUTED
- COMMENCEMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF MARTIN VAN BUREN
- THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY NARROWED TO A POINT
- “ABOLITION INSOLENCE”
- PART FOUR: The Division of Political Classes
- DESPOTISM OF ANDREW JACKSON
- THE DIVISION OF PARTIES
- RICH AND POOR
- THE STREET OF THE PALACES
- AMERICAN NOBILITY
- THE INEQUALITY OF HUMAN CONDITION
- A BAD BEGINNING
- THE WHIG EMBASSY TO WASHINGTON, AND ITS RESULT
- RIGHT VIEWS AMONG THE RIGHT SORT OF PEOPLE
- NEWSPAPER NOMINATIONS
- FOREIGN “PAUPERS”
- PART FIVE: The Principles of Free Trade
- MONOPOLIES: I
- “A LITTLE FREE-TRADE CRAZY”
- ASYLUM FOR INSANE PAUPERS
- MONOPOLIES: II
- REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS
- JOINT-STOCK PARTNERSHIP LAW
- THE FERRY MONOPOLY
- FREE TRADE POST OFFICE
- STOCK GAMBLING
- WEIGHMASTER GENERAL
- STATE PRISON MONOPOLY
- CORPORATION PROPERTY
- REGULATION OF COAL
- FREE FERRIES AND AN AGRARIAN LAW
- THANKSGIVING DAY
- MUNICIPAL DOCKS
- ASSOCIATED EFFORT
- THE COAL QUESTION
- THE CORPORATION QUESTION
- FREE TRADE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- ASSOCIATED EFFORT
- SALE OF PUBLICK LANDS
- MANACLES INSTEAD OF GYVES
- THE MEANING OF FREE TRADE
- GAMBLING LAWS
- FREE TRADE POST OFFICE
- FREE TRADE, TAXES, AND SUBSIDIES
- MEEK AND GENTLE WITH THESE BUTCHERS
- THE CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES, AND THE RIGHTS OF COMBINATION
- OMNIPOTENCE OF THE LEGISLATURE
- PART SIX: Literary Property
- RIGHTS OF AUTHORS
- THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS
- RIGHT OF PROPERTY IN THE FRUITS OF INTELLECTUAL LABOUR
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