The Jones Act is the most newsworthy U.
S. Merchant Marine suffered a catastrophic decline, to the decades of failed revival efforts, and finally to the building of a great Merchant fleet of vessels in World War I and the plan to make permanent America\'s place in the maritime world with that fleet-which was the Jones Act..
Charlie Papavizas captures a rich history from the early 17 th century English Navigation Acts to the Constitutional Convention, where slavery and maritime Policy were connected, to the Civil War, where the U.
S. Merchant Marine on the high seas difficult are the same today as they were in 1920. national defense and the economic conditions that made sustaining a U.
S. Merchant Marine has always been an essential component of U.
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And it is relevant history because the U.
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This Merchant Marine Policy history is American history with the well-known, like James Madison, and the obscure, like Senator Wesley Livsey Jones, playing their parts. Merchant Marine policies inherited from England and adapted over time by the United States starting in 1776.
The 1920 Act was the culmination of U.
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The Jones Act was originally understood to mean the whole of the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, which deals with far more than domestic maritime trade and mariner injuries.
But this attention is too narrow.
Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners to recover for injuries. domestic maritime trade.
Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.
S. maritime Policy law.
The Jones Act is the most newsworthy U.
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