...liberal democratic societies are underpinned by coercive power; indeed, it was Adam Smith who wrote, "civil government, so far as it is instituted for...some property against those who have none at all" (l993: 4l3). Liberalism's defense of property and privilege is also evident on a global scale, explaining...

...domain of polity between the king and the property class. A century later Adam Smith remarked in 1776: "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for...some property against those who have none at all" (Wealth of Nations: 715). However, by the midnineteenth century industrial development and urbanization...

...Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. i, bk I, ch. 1, p. 24. 59 As Smith frankly put it, 'civil government, so far as it is instituted for...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...

...LJ(A).iv.19. Cf. Smith criticises social contract theory in LJ(A).v.1l2-20; LJ(B).15-18. 114 LJ(B).20. Cf. 'Civil government, so far as it is instituted for...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...

...in various social settings, but he found one important circumstance to be common in all instances: "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for...some property against those who have none at all" (Smith 1937, p. 674). Smith believed that labor was the sole creator of value or wealth: "The annual...

...Compare also with Adam Smith's conviction that the government was "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." Smith, 1981/1776, Vib12. 94 Who certainly are not in agreement. See, for example, Krader, 1968. colonialism,...

...of 22 February 1763) (eds RL Meek, DD Raphael, PG Stein; Oxford, Clarendon Press; 1978), pp. 208-9. 'Civil government, so far as it is instituted for...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...

...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."10 The third social state, that of agriculture, was seen in the medieval, feudal economy of western...

...the leaders in the rising labor movement of Ricardo's time hoped). Given Adam Smith's assertion that "civil government, so far as it is instituted for...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...

...powers; Montesquieu of legislative, executive, and judicial. 36 Dickinson, Liberty and Property, 17. 37 "Civil Government so far as it is instituted for the...security of property, is in reality instituted for die defence of the rich against the poor, of those who had some property against those who have none...