William Leggett: Jacksonian Editorialist as Classical Liberal Political Economist

Originally published in History of Political Economy

This article attempts to reconstruct Leggett's positions on the principal issues he confronted and to show how those principles followed from a central principle, the Jeffersonian principle of equal natural rights.

This article attempts to reconstruct Leggett's positions on the principal issues he confronted and to show how those principles followed from a central principle, the Jeffersonian principle of equal natural rights.

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