The Law

This book written two years after the third French Revolution seeks to explain how the law had been perverted into an instrument of legal plunder. It argues that a government consists only of the people within or authorizing it therefore it has no legitimate powers beyond those that people would individually have. It goes on to describe the rights that those individuals do have which it recognizes as natural rights based on natural law. It summarizes these as life liberty and private property explaining that government's only legitimate role is to protect them. It also points out that those who resist plunder as is their natural right become targets of the very law that was supposed to protect their rights in the first place. Finally it describes other forms of plunder both legalized by the state and banned.