Dec 22, 2019
23 min read
How The Morrill Act Gave Birth to Public Ownership of Private Intellectual Property in the USA.
How the “New England Idea” gave way to “the Communist Idea’
Justin Morrill was a Vermont Whig and a self-made man who ended his formal education at age 15, made his success in the retail business, and retired at age 38. Thereafter Morrill entered politics to become a United States Representative, and…
