THE LAW BY FREDERIC BASTIAT REVIEW
The definition of legal plunder is when the law takes something from one person and gives it to another without consent or compensation. This can be defined as property such as money, property or rights (the latter is biggest in my opinion).
However the definition is better defined by Bastiat himself as follows:
"When a portion of wealth is transferred from a person who owns it without his consent and with out compensation, and whether by force or by fraud to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed
.." How is the legal plunder identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime
(The Law, p 21,24)
Bastiat said himself that slavery was a legal......
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