Laissez faire
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The doctrine that government should minimize interference with individual and economic activity, presented as dominant in mid-Victorian England and declining by 1900.
English statesmanship was at the middle of the Victorian era, in short, grounded on the laissez faire of common sense.
[xxxi] more force in the direction of collectivism, with the natural consequence that by 1900 the doctrine of laissez faire, in spite of the large element of truth which it contains, had more or less lost its hold upon the English people.
—The surviving belief in the policy of laissez faire.
Law in a Free State
The economic doctrine of non-interference, explicitly named and rejected by the National Liberal Club's members.
And yet the members of the club avowedly uphold State interference in all things, and dub the doctrine of laissez faire the creed of selfishness.
The correct and idiomatic English for laissez-faire is let be.
The principle is good enough for working purposes.