Chapter III: Part 3

Egyptian, 25, 26, 27, 28
fraternity and, 17
functions, 16, 31, 33, 49, 50
Greek, 26, 28, 29
justice and, 3, 4, 16, 51
morality and, 7, 21
motive force, 25
object of, 19
omnipotence, 44, 49
Persian, 26
perverted, v, 1, 5
philanthropic, 17
plunder and, 5, 13
posterior and inferior, 2, 3
respect for, 7, 9
Rousseau's views, 31, 33, 38
spirit of, 32
study of, 25
United States, 12
See also Legislation
Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de,
fraternity, 17
government power, 48, 49
Lawgiver, 38, 43
Legislation conflict in, 32
monopoly on, 5
struggle for control of, 11, 12
universal right of, 7
See also Law
Legislator. See Lawgiver; Politicians
Lepéletier, Louis Michel de Saint Fargeau, 39
Liberty competition and, 44, 45
defined, 42
denied, 44, 45
described, 53
education and, 44, 45
individual, 3
as power, 43
returned to, 55
seeking, 38

Life, faculties of, 1
Louis XIV 27
Lycurgus government, 30, 35, 36
influence, 33, 40

Mably, Abbé Gabriel Bonnot de, 35, 39
Mankind assimilation, 2
concern for, 54
degraded, 25
divided, 23
inert, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 47
inertia, 44
as machine, 31
nature of, 33
violation of, 52

Melun, Armand de, 52
Mentor, 28, 29
Mimerel de Roubaix, Pierre Auguste
Remi, 52
Monopoly, 5, 45
Montalembert, Charles, Comte de, 13, 15
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondât, Baron de, 29, 31
Morality law and, 21, 22
Morelly, 41

Napoleon, 41
Natural rights, v
Nature, gifts of, 1

Oliver de Serres, Guillaume Antoine, 29
Order, 3
Owen, Robert, 41
Ownership. See Property

Paraguay, 30
Persia, 26

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Personality, 2
Phalansteries, 55
Philanthropy. See Charity
Plato republic, 30
Plunder absence of, 16
burdens of, 5, 6
defined, 17
general welfare and, 19
extralegal, 13
kinds, 13
legal, v, ix, 6, 13, 22
organized, 14
origin of, 6
partial, 15, 16
socialistic, 13
universal, 15, 16
Politicians dreams of, 36
genius of, 30
goodness of, 25
importance of, 22, 23
responsibility of, 27
social engineers, 22, 24, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45
superior, 46, 54
Politics exaggerated importance of, 8
and favors, vi
plunder through, vi
Poor relief. See Charity; Welfare
Power. See Government
Property man and, 2
origin of, 5
Protectionism, 18
United States, 12
Proudhonians, 46
Providence, 55
Public relief, 10, 20, 29

Raynal, Abbé Guillaume, 33, 35
Religion, State, 22
Rent seeking, vi, vii
Republic kinds of, 29
virtues of, 39
Revolt, 6
Revolution, 47
French, 38
Rhodes, 32
Rights individual, v, 2, 3
Roberspierre, Jean Jacques
government, 38
lawgiver, 40
Rome virtue, 32
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
disciples, 8, 9
on the lawgiver, 31, 33

Saint-Cricq, Barthélémy, Pierre Laurent, Comte de, 50
Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon de, 38
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, Comte de doctrine, 41
Salentum, 27, 29
Security consequences, 3
Self-defense, 2, 37, 49, 50
Selfishness, 5
Serres, Oliver de, 29
Slavery,
United States, viii, 12
universality, 5
Socialism confused, ix, 22
defined, 14, 15
disguised, 22
experiments, 23, 24
legal plunder, 13
sincerely believed, 18
social engineers, 22, 24
refutation of, 15
Socialists, vii
Society enlightened, 37

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experiments, 23
motive force, 40, 43
object of, 36, 37
parable of the traveler, 54, 55

Solon, 33, 35
Sparta, 32, 36
Spoliation. See Plunder
State. See Government
Suffrage. See Universal suffrage

Tariffs, vi, viii
Telemachus, 27
Terror as means of republican government, 39, 40
Theirs, Louis Adolphe
doctrine, 52
education, 45
Tyre, 32

United States, viii, 12
Declaration of Independence, v
Universal suffrage demand for, 9, 43, 44, 46, 47
importance of, 10
incapacity and, 9
objections, 9

Vaucanson, Jacques de, 54
Vested interests, 13, 14
Virtue and vice, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40
Voting responsibility and, 9, 10
right of, 10
See also Universal suffrage

Want satisfaction, 4
Wealth equality of, 11, 21, 29, 36
transfer of, vii
Welfare, 10, 20, 28

The law perverted! The law--and, in its wake, all the
collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not
only diverted from its proper direction, but made
to pursue one entirely contrary! The law becomes
the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being
its check! The law guilty of that very inequity which
it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious
fact, if it exists, and one to which I feel bound to
call the attention of my fellow-citizens.

--Frédéric Bastiat