Free trade
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free trade · belief in free trade · free exchange · free traders · free-traders · freedom of commerce · freedom of trade
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The policy of unrestricted trade, presented as a near-universal mid-Victorian conviction later challenged by a protectionist revival.
” With the perennial controversy between free-traders and protectionists a student of law and opinion has no necessary concern;
Free trade, again, was held to be the only policy suitable for England, and probably the only policy which would in the long run benefit the inhabitants of a modern civilised State.
the policy of free exchange was not completely accepted by England till 1846.