State interference
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State coddling · State control · State socialism · State-regulated hours of labour · factory legislation
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Law in a Free State
The central concept of the passage: the extent to which the State may legitimately interfere with individual liberty, and how its proper limits might be determined.
The power of the State may be defined as the resultant of all the social forces operating within a definite area, “It follows,” says Professor Huxley, with characteristic logical thoroughness, “that no limit is, or can be, theoretically set to State interference.
Can any guiding principle be formulated whereby we may know where the State should interfere with the liberties of its citizens and where it should not?
The proper aim of the reformer, therefore, is to find out, by a study of history, exactly what those classes of acts are in which State interference shows signs of becoming weaker and weaker, and what those other classes of acts are in which such interference tends to be more rigorous and regular.