Frédéric Bastiat: Liberty, Rights, and The Law

By Tom Malone

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men together in a society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it. —Frédéric Bastiat

In the ideological upheaval of 19th-century France, a nation grappling with the disastrous fallout of Napoleon’s wars and economic policies …