Law enforcement: What does it mean

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

The Law

by: Frederic Bastiat

Date: 06/01/1850
Source: Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.: Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533 Telephone: [phone]
URL: http://www.fee.org/files/doclib/20121116_TheLaw.pdf

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Foreword

Walter E. Williams

I must have been forty years old before reading Frederic
Bastiat’s classic The Law. An anonymous person, to whom I shall
eternally be in debt, mailed me an unsolicited copy. After reading
the book I was convinced that a liberal-arts education without
an encounter with Bastiat is incomplete. Reading Bastiat
made me keenly aware of all the time wasted, along with the
frustrations of going down one blind alley after another, organizing
my philosophy of life. The Law did not produce a philosophical
conversion for me as much as it created order in my thinking
about liberty and just human conduct.

Many philosophers have made important contributions to
the discourse on liberty, Bastiat among them. But Bastiat’s greatest
contribution is that he took the discourse out of the ivory
tower and made ideas on liberty so clear that even the unlettered
can understand them and statists cannot obfuscate them.
Clarity is crucial to persuading our fellowman of the moral superiority of personal liberty.

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.



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.

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