The Law

collective force, which is nothing but the organized union of isolated forces?

Therefore, if there is one thing evident, it is this:
The Law original: "La Loi" is the organization of the natural Right of legitimate defense; it is the substitution of collective force for individual forces to act within the circle where these have the right to act, to do what these have the right to do, to guarantee Persons, Liberties, and Properties, to maintain everyone in their Right, and to make JUSTICE reign among all.

And if there existed a people constituted on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail there in facts as in ideas. It seems to me that this people would have the simplest government, the most economical, the least heavy, the least felt, the least responsible, the most just, and consequently the most solid one could imagine, whatever its political form might otherwise be.

For, under such a regime, everyone would well understand that they have the full plenitude as well as the full responsibility of their Existence. Provided that the person was respected, labor original: "travail." Bastiat uses this to mean both the act of working and the right to the results of that effort. was free, and the fruits of labor were guaranteed against any unjust attack, no one would have anything to settle with the State. If happy, we would not, it is true, have to thank it for our success;