It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. [Emphasis added] What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking. [...]
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The Results of Legal Plunder – Frederic Bastiat
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What Is Law? [Part 1] – Frederic Bastiat
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 preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of [...]
