Ugly law

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Ugly laws also sometimes known as unsightly beggar laws were a type of local ordinance enacted in a number of U.S. communities beginning in the mid 19th century. Advocates of such laws generally presented them as tools to keep "ugly people" - those who were "diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any other way deformed" as one put it. Such laws are the subject of a 2009 book by Susan Schweik.[1]

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  1. ↑ Schweik, Susan. The Ugly Laws (NYU Press 2009)
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