... the Physiocratic attack on mercantilism and argued that nations get rich by practicing free trade. Of Smith, Turgot, and the Physiocrats, the great French political leader and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) wrote: The basis of their whole economic system may be truly said to lie in the principle ... the very rights of man and the citizen the new government was so loudly proclaiming. By confiscating church property, no matter how justified, France's Revolutionary leaders showed that they weren't interested in a true free society, only in one created in the image of their own philosop...

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