Let's take a closer look at an example. A price ceiling is the maximum price that can be charged. If the price is set below the equilibrium price, the price ceiling is said to be effective (or binding).
Criminal vagrancy laws were originally aimed at those wanderers and. beggars physically capable of working.24 However, in 1744 vagrancy. crimes were divided into three classes: idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues.
These policies underlying the English vagrancy laws were transplanted to colonial America. Under the Articles of Confederation, paupers and vagabonds were excepted from the guarantee of free movement between the states (art. 4).