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...
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 ...
Il faut le dire: il y a trop de grands hommes dans le monde; il y a trop de legislateurs, organisateurs, instituteurs de societes, conducteurs de peuples, peres des nations, etc. Trop de gens se placent au dessus de l'humanite pour la regenter, trop de gens font metier de s'occuper d'elle. Compose peu avant sa mort, La Loi est certainement le plus celebre et le plus brillant des ecrits de Frederic Bastiat. Dans ce court pamphlet, Bastiat souligne a quel point la loi est pervertie quand l'Etat pretend en faire un moyen de philanthropie et la source de droits artificiels - droit au travail,...
Il faut le dire: il y a trop de grands hommes dans le monde; il y a trop de legislateurs, organisateurs, instituteurs de societes, conducteurs de peup...