 Key figures in the implementation of the Act included Robert Laurie Morant and especially economist William Braithwaite, who drafted the details after inspecting the German system.The medical profession was angry with the law, despite support from some prominent leaders such as Victor Horsley.Some critics on the right such as Hilaire Belloc considered the Act to be a manifestation of "The Servile State", which Belloc blasted in his book of the same name.