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Perverted Law Causes Conflict
As long as it is admitted that the
law may be diverted from its true purpose—that it may
violate property instead of protecting it—then everyone will
want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself
against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions
will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing.
There will be fighting at the door
of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no
less furious. To know this, it is hardly necessary to examine
what transpires in the French and English legislatures; merely to
understand the issue is to know the answer.
Is there any need to offer proof
that this odious perversion of the law is a perpetual source of
hatred and discord; that it tends to destroy society itself? If
such proof is needed, look at the United States [in 1850]. There
is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its
proper domain: the protection of every person’s liberty and
property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no
country in the world where the social order rests on a firmer
foundation. But even in the United States, there are two
issues—and only two—that have always endangered the
public peace.
Clark Simmons, Webmaster
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