The Law
The Law
The Law
It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous along with The candlemaker's petition and the Parable of the broken window.
This lively text is intended for students of politics as well as law, but it will also interest anyone who is concerned about the rule of law in Britain.
First, the book defines the law; discusses how and why laws are made and enacted; looks at local, state, and federal laws and how they interact; and then discusses crime as a political issue.
It defines a just system of laws and then demonstrates how such law facilitates a free society. In The Law, he wrote that everyone has a right to protect "his person, his liberty, and his property".
The problem has never been discussed so profoundly and passionately as in this essay by Frederic Bastiat from 1850. The essay might have been written today.
The Law
The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.