num_pages: 79
description: The Law, first published in 1850, is Bastiat's most famous and enduring work."The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it."—Excerpt, The Law
language: English
title: The Law
titlecomplete: The Law
genres: France, Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, Law, Nonfiction, Classics, Economics, History, Government
ratings_count: 12610
publisher: Foundation for Economic Education