... was balance. This war was brought to an end with the treaty of Paris. France officially surrendered Canada and India to the British, affording them extraordinary field for commercial exploitation. John Locke- (1632-1704) Politician and philosopher. He wrote 2 books a book on Human Understanding and another on Gov't. The book deals with the justification of the Glorious and American Revolution. Gov ... the british system and its separate and balanced powers, which garunteed liberty in the sense of freedom from the absolute power of any single governing individual or group. Adam Smith-(17...

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... tariffs, ideas that found their rallying cry in the famous slogan, laissez-faire, laissez-passer." The Physiocrats exerted a profound influence on Adam Smith, who had spent time in France in the 1760s and whose classic "The Wealth of Nations" embodied 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 ... . After the Boston Massacre, when the British soldiers who had fired upon the cro...

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