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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The school of orthodox political economists whose doctrines were considered articles of the utilitarian creed and were built on individualist premises.
The economists were in truth strenuous individualists.
Political economy and jurisprudence were between 1830 and 1850 little more than branches of utilitarianism.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Writers on political economy invoked as authorities for the principle that individuals manage their own property better than government-granted privilege can.
Political economists say, in defence of the freedom of property against exclusive privileges, that every man is the best manager of his own affairs.