The Law
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A3LXJ5O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 455 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Law, because it has force for its necessary sanction, can only have as its lawful domain the domain of force, which is justice.. Its mission is to prevent the rights of one from interfering with those of another, in any one of these things. This new audio edition, from the Mises Institute, revives a glorious translation that has been out of print for 100 years, one that circulated in Britain in the generation that followed Bastiat s death. Bastiat doesn t avoid the difficult issues, such as why should we think that a democratic mandate can convert injustice to justice? He deals directly with the issue of the expanse of legislation: It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments. When the law enforcer is permitted to do with others' lives and property what would be illegal if the citizens did them, the law becomes perverted. More specifically, the problem of law that itself violates law is an insurmountable conundrum of all statist philosophies. It applies to our own time. It applies in all times in which the state assumes unto itself different rules and different laws from that by which it expects other people to live. The question that Bastiat deals with: how to tell when a law is unjust or when the law maker has become a source of law breaking? When the law becomes a means of plunder it has
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