Mises Wire
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[Excerpt from chapter 3 of the Bastiat Collection .] I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs, but of a million, with crowns, medals and ribbons—for a good, simple and intelligible definition of the word “Government.” What an immense service it would confer on society! The Government! What is it? Where is it? what does it do?