id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 44800 Bastiat, Frédéric The Law .txt text/plain 18852 944 66 rights of "individuality, liberty, property." "This is man," he wrote. Far from protecting individual rights, the law was increasingly protected individual rights to life, liberty, and property. It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. liberty, and his property, a number of men have the right to combine lawfulness, in individual right; and the common force cannot rationally organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. political rights; either they may wish to put an end to lawful plunder, In fact, if law were confined to causing all persons, all liberties, and social problem, is contained in these simple words--LAW IS ORGANIZED When law and force keep a man within the bounds of justice, they impose ./cache/44800.txt ./txt/44800.txt