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" Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. "
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Page 102
by Adam Smith - 1819
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The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States

Charles Hall - 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 - 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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Reading book. New code, 1981. Standard 1, 4-6

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pages
...defend their property and to support their authority. Civil government, so far as it is in reality instituted for the security of property, is in reality...some property against those who have none at all. — ADAM SMITH. From 1759 to 1790. DESCRIPTION OF AN HONEST STATESMAN. You are so little accustomed...
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Fears For Democracy Regarded From the American Point of View. by Charles ...

Charles Ingersoll - 1875 - 298 pages
...that happiness and prosperity depended on the discipline of the army; and even Adam Smith said that " civil government, so far as it is instituted for the...some property against those who have none "at all." Neither the Scotch philosopher nor the German king had imagined democracy. This movement, of which...
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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 Right to the Whole Produce of Labour: The Origin and Development of the ...

Anton Menger - 1899 - 400 pages
...propertied classes. As Adam Smith puts it, in words whose significance was not lost on Charles Hall, " Civil Government, so far as it is instituted for the...some property against those who have none at all." a Thus, just as socialists speak of a i tl'efdHi. of Nations, bk. vci part ii. This view of Government...
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Social Justice: A Critical Essay

Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1900 - 414 pages
...some property, and that no one has too much." Thus also Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, says, " Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the...some property against those who have none at all." 1 If we are to understand, as indeed it would seem we must understand, that Rousseau and Smith held...
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The Monarch Billionaire

Morrison Isaac Swift - 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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The Struggle for Existence

Walter Thomas Mills - 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 - 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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