Category: Books
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Raynal
Raynal in the United States Raynal, on the subject of mankind being molded by the legislator (see Rousseau), wrote: The legislator must first consider the climate, the air, and the soil. The resources at his disposal determine his duties. He must first consider his locality. A population […]
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Rousseau
Rousseau in the United States This writer on public affairs was the supreme authority of the democrats in his time. He, to a greater extent than anyone else, completely accepted the theory of the total inertness of mankind in the presence of the legislators: If it is true that a great […]
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu in the United States Montesquieu on this same subject as Fenelon, wrote ths: To maintain the spirit of commerce, it is necessary that all the laws must favor it. These laws, by proportionately dividing up the fortunes as they are made in commerce, should provide every poor […]
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Fenelon
Fenelon in the United States Fenelon wasarchbishop, author, and instructor to the Duke of Burgundy. He was a witness to the power of Louis XIV. This, plus the fact that he was nurtured in the classical studies and the admiration of antiquity, naturally caused Fenelon to accept the idea […]
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Bossuet
Bossuet in the United States Bossuet was ttutor to the Dauphin in the Court of Louis XIV. A famous quotation from Bossuet was: One of the things most strongly impressed (by whom?) upon the minds of the Egyptians was patriotism…. No one was permitted to be useless to the state. The […]
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Law and Morals; Bastiat
Law and Morals; Bastiat in United States The Law and Morals You say: Here are persons who are lacking in morality or religion, and you turn to the law. But law is force. And need I point out what a violent and futile effort it is to use force in the matters of morality and…
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Law and Education: Bastiat
The Law and Education in the United States You say: There are persons who lack education, and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some…
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Law and Charity – Bastiat
The Law and Charity in the United States You say: There are persons who have no money, and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter…
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Law is force and a negative concept
Law is force and a negative concept in the United States Law Is Force Since the law organizes justice, the socialists ask why the law should not also organize labor, education, and religion. Why should not law be used for these purposes? Because it could not organize labor, education, […]
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Bastiat: The proper funcion of the law
The Proper Function of the Law in the United States And, in all sincerity, can anything more than the absence of plunder be required of the law? Can the law—which necessarily requires the use of force—rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to […]
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The Law Defends Plunder
The Law Defends Plunder in the United States But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of […]
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Property and legal plunder
Bastiat, Frédéric: Property and legal plunder in the United States Property and Plunder Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a […]
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Bastiat, Frédéric: Perversion of the Law
Bastiat, Frédéric: Perversion of the Law in the United States The Complete Perversion of the Law But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable […]
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Bastiat, Frédéric: What Is Law?
What Is Law? in the United States What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. Each of us has a natural right—from God—to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the […]
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Classical law authors
Classical law authors in the United States •Alchian Armen A. Alchian •Anon. (Montesquieu’s Editor) Anon. (Montesquieu’s Editor) •Bacon Sir Francis Bacon •Barbeyrac Jean Barbeyrac •Barrington R Mrs. Russell Barrington •Bastiat Frédéric Bastiat •Beck James M. Beck •Belz H Herman Belz […]