The Law original French title La Loi is a 1849 book by Frederic Bastiat It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848 and one year before his death of tuberculosis at age 49 The essay was influenced by John Lockes Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitts Economics in One Lesson It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous along with The candlemakers petition and the Parable of the broken window
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