Capitolo 86
impost was not in himself considerable, and you/he/she would not have been
extraordinarily disgusting to the privileged classes, but for the
principle of equality from which Turgot justified him/it: "The expenses of
I govern that has for their object the affairs of everybody, all they owe
contribute to them; and the more advantages that a man has, the anymore that man
you/he/she should contribute."
Neither it was this the more levelling of the matters of Turgot. He pointed out
what although originally the exemption from taxation that the nobility
enjoyed, you/he/she would have been defended on the earth that the nobleses were
limits to produce military service without pays, such service had from a lot
stopped being finished, while on the contrary titles you/he/she could be bought for
money. From now every rich men they became a noble when he arranged, and this way
exemption from taxation had come to introduce the line of fissure among
the rich and poor one. From this push the privileged classes felt him
hurt in their vitals and the Parliament in Paris, the essence of
privileges, faked their defense. To be tiing, the edicts had to be
recorded by the Parliament between the laws of France and Parliament
declined to make recording on the earth that the edicts were
unconstitutional, as subversive of the monarchy and the principle of
order. The opinion of the court was long, but a solo paragraph gives
his/her sense: "The first rule of the justice is to preserve to every one that that
it belongs to him: this rule consists, not only in to preserve the rights of
ownership, but even more in to preserve those that belong to the person,
what they rise from the prerogative of birth and position.... From this
rule of law and the equity that it follows that each system that, under a
aspect of humanity and the beneficence, would have the tendency to establish among
men an equality of the duties, and to destroy necessary distinctions,
soon conducts to disarrange (the inevitable result of the equality), and it is able
you provoke the reverses of civil society."