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      The Law

      by Frédéric Bastiat

      1850

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      Life,  faculties,  production—in  other  words,  individuality, liberty, property—this is man. 

       

      Life,  liberty,  and  property  do  not  exist  because  men  have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property  existed  beforehand  that  caused  men  to  make  laws  in the first place.

       

       ...the  fatal  tendency  that  exists  in the  heart  of  man  to  satisfy  his  wants  with  the  least  possible

      effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it  is  easy  to  understand  how  law,  instead  of checking  injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice.

       

      No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the  citizen  has  the  cruel  alternative  of  either  losing  his  moral sense  or  losing  his  respect  for  the  law. 

       

      What is law? What ought it to be? What is its scope; its limits? Logically, at what point do the just powers of the legislator (lawmaker) stop? I do not hesitate to answer: Law is the common force organized to act as an obstacle to injustice. In short, law is justice.

       

       

       

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