The Law Is A Well-documented Piece That Describes The Thoughts And Theories Of T

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Term Paper Title	The Law Is A Well-documented Piece That Describes The Thoughts And Theories Of T
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The Law is a well-documented piece that describes the thoughts and theories of the French economist Frederic Bastiat.  Throughout the document the author discuses the rights and liberties of humans and how they should be respected.  Bastiat thought that the laws were naturally right but were corrupted at the same time (Bastiat 5).  In other words he thought the laws cancelled themselves.  The law, instead of punishing for crimes, is just as guilty as the humans that committed the crimes are.
     We hold from God the gift, which includes all others (Bastiat 5).  With this Bastiat is saying that life is a gift from God, and that we should preserve and protect that great gift.  God gave us life and with that comes liberty and property; because of we cherish these belongings we have developed laws to protect them.
     One might ask, what is law?  Law is the individual right to defend life, liberty, and property. These three things are known as common rights.  Everyone should have the right to protect his common rights.

If these common rights are violated then justice should be enforced on the criminal that violates these common rights (Bastiat 7).
     The government should provide justice in a strong force.  If nations were founded on the concept of law then we might live in a utopian society.  This does not mean that Bastiat was a utopianst.  If the government were founded on these principals the government would have more responsibilities. In Bastiat terms, the sources of our existence are made uncertain and precarious by these state-created displacements.  And furthermore, these acts burden the government with increased responsibilities (Bastiat 8).
     Bastiat thought that the law was completely perverted; the law has been used to destroy its own objective.  The laws placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous that wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others.  It has converted plunder into a right in order to protect plunder (Bastiat 9).
     But there is also another tendency that is common among people.  When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others (Bastiat 9).  Men simply wish to live at the expense of the fellowman.
Good examples of are: slavery, religious persecutions, dishonesty, and monopolies.
     Plunder is taking from one man and giving to another.  Two types of plunder exist: legal plunder and illegal plunder.  Illegal plunder is theft, vandalism, and trespass.  Legal plunder i...

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