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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm ... - Page 39
by Adam Smith - 1839
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 3

Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...him depends his power of keeping their inferiors in subordination to them. They constitute a sort of little nobility, who feel themselves interested to...defence of the rich against the poor, or of those tvho have some property against those who have none, at all. The judicial authority of such a sovereign,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...history of every couutrv in Eutheir property, and to support their authority, | rope boars witness. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is, in nality, instituted for the defence of the r !cn against the poor, or of those who Iwv-j some property...
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The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States

Charles Hall - Civilization - 1849 - 280 pages
...joints become stiff, he is bent with labour, and he arrives prematurely at old age. t Adam Smith says, civil government, so far as it is / instituted for...instituted for the defence of the rich, against the poor. — Vide Wealth o/' Nations, vol. iii., page 80. deprived of the means of resistance, as well as depressed...
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The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States

Charles Hall - Civilization - 1850 - 270 pages
...joints become stiff, he is bent with labour, and he arrives prematurely at old age. t Adam Smith says, civil government, so far as it is instituted for the...instituted for the defence of the rich, against the poor. — Vide Wealth of Nations, vol. iii., page 80. deprived of the means of resistance, as well as depressed...
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An analysis of Adam Smiths' Inquiry into the nature and causes of ..., Volume 2

Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 pages
...authority which could not exist before. It thereby introduces some degree of civil government, which is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor.1 The judicial authority of such a sovereign was, for a long time, a source of revenue to him....
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The Monarch Billionaire

Morrison Isaac Swift - Capitalism in literature - 1903 - 328 pages
...people oppress the inferior one.' Smith was the father among other things, of Anarchy, for he said: 'Civil government, so far as it is instituted for...security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Classical school of economics - 1904 - 574 pages
...him depends his power of keeping their inferiors in subordination to them. They constitute a sort of little nobility, who feel themselves interested to...have some property against those who have none at all.1 The judicial authority of such a sovereign, however, far from being a cause of expence, was for...
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The Struggle for Existence

Walter Thomas Mills - Economics - 1904 - 652 pages
...and thereby increasing the number of unsolved problems." — Kautsky: Social Revolution, p. 95. 7. "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of 377. Socialism Will Deliver the State from the Hands of Its Foes.— Today the workshop and the market-place...
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The Spirit of American Government: A Study of the Constitution: Its Origin ...

James Allen Smith - Constitutional law - 1907 - 442 pages
...Convention reminds one of Adam Smith's statement, made a few years before in his "Wealth of Nations," that "civil government, so far as it is instituted for...property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the 1Elliot's Debates, Vol. I, p. 422. 2Ibid., p. 450. rich against the poor, or of those who have some...
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The Spirit of American Government: A Study of the Constitution: Its Origin ...

James Allen Smith - Constitutional law - 1907 - 474 pages
...is in reality instituted for the defence of the 1 Elliot's Debates, Vol. I, p. 422. "Ibid., p. 450. rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."1 The solicitude shown by the members of this convention for the interests of the well-to-do certainly...
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