...industry of private people, and of directing it towads the employment most suitable to the interests of the society. According to the system of natural...the sovereign has only three duties to attend to; three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings; first,...

...of direct aggression. "The first duty of the sovereign," wrote Smith in The Wealth of Nations, "that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of military force."3 While there could be no doubt that economic power...

...both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of man. . . . According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three dudes to attend to. . .: first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of...

...completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to numerous delusions, and for the proper performance of which...the sovereign has only three duties to attend to; three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first,...

...capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men. The sovereign is compleatly discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform...the sovereign has only three duties to attend to; three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first,...

...under Smith's market-liberal regime, but it would be narrowly limited to three major functions: (1) "the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies"; (2) "the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of society from the injustice or oppression...

...Adam Smith in his An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations that the first duty of the sovereign, "mat of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by the means of a military force," is instructive. While we accept this implicit...

...be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it toward the employments most suitable to the interest of the...liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to [defense, judiciary, and essential public works]" (The Wealth of Nations, 687). 11. CB Macpherson,...

...justice, and (3) the provision and maintenance of certain public works. To Smith, defense reflected the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies. The administration of justice entailed the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of...

...such freedom for the individual is not 'security', but defence: 'the first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies'.11 Emma Rothschild locates the meaning of 'security' as a concept relating to individuals...