"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome I" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850)."

"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome II" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850)."

"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome III" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850)."

"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome IV" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850)."

"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome V" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850).

"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome VI" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850).

"Oeuvres Completes de Frederic Bastiat- Tome VII" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique francais (1801-1850)."

"Memoire sur la repartition de l'impot foncier dans les Landes" de Frederic Bastiat. Economiste et homme politique liberal francais (1801-1850)."

The Law was originally published in French in 1850 (this translation to English is from 1874) by Frederic Bastiat. It was written two years after the third French Revolution of 1848 and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous. Bastiat states that "each of us has a natural right - from God - to defend his person, his liberty, and his property." The State is a "substitution of a common force for...