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[Illuminated page for the month of April from Les Très
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Quotations about Liberty and Power
Tiedeman states that the police powers under the constitution are strictly limited to enforcing the maxim: “use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another” (1886) The American legal scholar Christopher Tiedeman (1857-1903) believed that the police powers of the government were strictly limited under the constitution to protecting the rights of minorities from control or interference by the majority:
The principal object of the present work is to demonstrate, by a detailed discussion of the constitutional limitations upon the police power in the United States, that under the written constitutions, Federal and State, democratic absolutism is impossible in this country, as long as the popular reverence for the constitutions, in their restrictions upon governmental activity, is nourished and sustained by a prompt avoidance by the courts of any violations of their provisions, in word or in spirit. The substantial rights of the minority are shown to be free from all lawful control or interference by the majority, except so far as such control or interference may be necessary to prevent injury to others in the enjoyment of their rights. The police power of the government is shown to be confined to the detailed enforcement of the legal maxim, sic utere tuo, ut alienum non lædas (“use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another”).
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Adam Smith, the Pin-Maker, and the Division
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One of the most famous stories in economics is Adam Smith's
story of the pin-maker. It has been repeated endlessly by other
economists as it encapsulates quite nicely one of the key insights
of economic analysis, namely the benefits of the division of
labor. It would have to rank alongside Frédéric Bastiat's story
of the broken window in popularity. The purpose of the
story is to illustrate how much greater output could be achieved
if numerous workers cooperated by taking one small task each
in building a complex good like a pin or a nail. Adam Smith
developed his ideas about the division of labour in the 1760s
and 1770 as he was giving lectures and writing the Wealth
of Nations (1776). At the same time Denis Diderot in France
was compiling the famous Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire
raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers which appeared
between 1751 and 1772. The articles in the Encyclopédie were
accompanied by beautifully drawn illustrations, such
as the ones we include above of a pin factory. Members of
both the Scottish and French enlightenments were facsinated
by the opportunities offered by technological and economic
change in such things as seemingly "very trifling" as
the making of a pin. The accompanying essay will have some
of Smith's quotations (as well as by other political economists)
with higher resolution versions of the illustrations. Smith's
pin-maker will be compared to J.B. Say's playing card factory.
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