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“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Pl ! the term laissez-faire refers to the government’s approach, in the 1890s, to foreign policy affecting trade. economic policy affecting business. educational policy affecting schools. domestic policy affecting social reform.

Why is the sons of liberty a difficult group to describe ?