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The American Law of Association: The Legal-Political Construction of Civil Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

William J. Novak
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

Extract

The legal-political status and power of associations in American society is an age-old historical question. As early as the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed,

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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