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fact that there are people who have the power

to make laws.

What is legislation? and what gives people the power to make laws?

THE ESSENCE OF LEGISLA

TION IS ORGANISED

VIOLENCE

CHAPTER XII.

THE ESSENCE OF LEGISLATION IS ORGANISED

VIOLENCE.

WHAT is legislation? And what enables people to make laws?

There exists a whole science, more ancient and more mendacious and confused than political economy, the servants of which in the course of centuries have written millions of books (for the most part contradicting one another) to answer these questions. But as the aim of this science, as of political economy, is not to explain what now is and what ought to be, but rather to prove that what now is is what ought to be, it happens that in this science (of jurisprudence) we find very many dissertations about rights, about object and subject, about the idea of a state and other such matters which are unintelligible both to the stu

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