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Summary: Beg your Congressman to read this book
Review: Though written in 1850 the ideas expressed by the author are so true today. Unfortunately, we have a government today dominated by liberals, who believe they need to use the law to take from the producers and give to the lazy, and conservatives, who, while claiming to stand for many of the things in this book, in reality join with the liberals to keep us in a strangle hold of big government-using the law to control us rather than using it to prevent injustice as intended. This should be required reading for every congressman. It is a short, easy read that could be referred back to often.
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Summary: Recommended Reading from the Local Government Council
Review: Bastait provides the fundimental principals on the rules of civil government. This is not a book on legalities, but a small treaties on the dangers of unrestrained government.You'll read this book in an hour, but the principles will late a life time.
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Summary: Puts political arguments in the proper perspective
Review: Arguing from the humble perspective of one of mankind's observers rather than the conceited perspective one of its shapers, Mr. Bastiat effectively defines the only rational purpose of Law.What is the purpose of Law, according to Mr. Bastiat? To establish a constant force of lawful defense of each person's natural right to defend his life, liberty, and property against any unjust attack. In a word, Justice. To establish his point, Mr. Bastiat challenges anyone to name a single endeavor that a government can do in addition to securing these rights that does not itself trample upon them, and then analyses the numerous feeble attempts by legislators and philosophers to do this. In his trenchent analysees, he exposes the absolute absurdities of such proposals. A delightful and tremendously important book.
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Summary: Mind-blowing yet rational analysis of the role of govt.
Review: Reading "The Law" by Fredrick Batiat was a prerequisite in my economic class and there was no looking back in the comprehension of the true role of government. Using the rules of nature and moral law to persuade his readers, he uses terms like legalized plunder to establish that plunder is still plunder whether it hides behind a law or not. He explains that plunder has three ways it manifests itself. You can plunder the few, none, or all, and from this he pushes his argument that allow for none or all to be plundered but the few is unacceptable. He attacks issues like minimum wage and welfare 100 years before the problems of these issues entered the minds of politicians. Even though he died in his early thirties, his life was dedicated to combat communism by contradicting the statements of Marx through moral law. Bastiat was one of the first writers to execute coversation in laymans terms so that the masses could be swayed. The law is an example o! ! f this type of literature, and I applaud such an eloquent piece of work
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Summary: After the Bible, this is number one !
Review: No man who has not read this book can call himself educated. No lawyer should be admitted into a courtroom who has not studied Bastiat. Bastiat was writing the Solution the same years Marx was distilling the Problem! A classic, very readable, you'll want more copies so you don't lose yours.
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Summary: One of the most powerful books ever about individual freedom
Review: Bastiat hit the nail on the head when it comes to what's wrong with government. His scolding of contemporary political thinkers, who consistently looked upon the individual as incapable of making decisions on their own, is still relevant today. If only more of our politicians would give heed to his words and just do their jobs, leaving us to make our own decisions...
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Summary: Quite possibly the most awesome treatise on government.
Review: This book explores the concept of government and how it acts. It focuses on the concept of legal plunder - theft by government - and advocates that we not use the government for such means. It is probably the easiest to read treatise on goveernment one could ever find. When you combine that with the books power and accuracy, you realize that this is one of the greatest texts ever written.
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Summary: Voltaire was right; it is the pamphlets that are to be feare
Review: Wow! Frederic Bastiat's razor sharp sense of wit and logic really cuts through all of the foggy metaphors and sloppy verbiage that plagued so many other of his 19th century counterparts(and many of today's so-called "intellectuals"). He wastes no time slaughtering sacred cows with an acid prose so dead-on that its likely to cause heart palpitations in any ivory tower professor that reads him. Should be required reading for any new college student about to sink into the amoral P.C. sludge on America's campuses. Definitely a kick in that fundament.
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Summary: Most influential book read in my life.
Review: When it seems that government is involving itself in matters that it should not, but you are not quite sure, then read, "The Law". You will have an understanding of all politics and know where politics should go for the future of our country. These most basic principles apply to all men, all countries, and all times. I have bought copies and distributed them to freinds and associates. If you would read this one book, I would not ask that you read any other
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Summary: It changed my political outlook
Review: Coming out of college I was a sign-carrying, protesting liberal. Then I read The Law. No book has had such a profound impact on my political thought process. I submit to you that it is impossible to read this book and remain bogged down in the illogical arena of modern-day liberalism. I have purchase and distributed over 100 copies of this book to friends and politicians
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