The Nature of Commercial Laws on Superphysics

The Spirit of Commerce and Two Types of Poor

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Chapter 1: How Commerce Improves and Corrupts Morals

Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices.

whereever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes
wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners.

Our manners are now less savage because of commerce. It has everywhere diffused a knowledge of the manners of all nations. These are compared one with another, and from this comparison arise the greatest advantages.

Commerce in different Governments

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TRADE has some relation to forms of government.

A monarchy is generally founded on luxury. Its principal view is to procure everything that can contribute to the pride, pleasure, and capricious whims of the nation.

Institutions for Commerce= Banks, Freeports, Trade Rules

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Chapter 10: Banks

IN economical commercial states, they have luckily established banks which have created a new kind of wealth by their credit. But it would be wrong to introduce banks into governments whose commerce is founded only in luxury.

Improper Customs Destroys Commerce

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Chapter 13: How Improper Customs Destroys the Freedom of Commerce

WHEREVER commerce subsists, customs are established.

Commerce is the exportation and importation of merchandise with a view to the state’s advantage.
Customs are a right over this exportation and importation, founded also on the state’s advantage.

The state should be neutral between its customs and its commerce. These two should not interfere with each other. After this, the people enjoy a free commerce.

The Law in Geneva and Rhodesia, Commercial Judges

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Chapter 16: An excellent Law of Rhodes

Geneva has an admirable law which excludes the children of bankrupts from the magistracy and even from the admittance into the great council until they have discharged their father’s debts.

A Prince should not engage himself in Commerce

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Chapter 19: A Prince should not engage in Commerce

Theophilus saw a vessel laden with merchandises for his wife Theodora and ordered it to be burnt. He said= “I am Emperor, and you make me the master of a galley. How shall these poor men gain a livelihood, if we take their trade out of their hands?”

To what Nations Commerce is prejudicial

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Chapter 23: To what Nations Commerce is prejudicial

Riches consist either in lands, or in moveable effects.

The soil of every country is commonly possessed by the natives. The laws of most states render foreigners unwilling to purchase their lands; Only the presence of the owner improves them: this kind of riches therefore belongs to every state in particular. But moveable effects, as money, notes, bills of exchange, stocks in companies, vessels, and all merchandises, belong to the whole world in general. In this respect it is composed of but one single state, of which all the societies upon earth are members. The people who possess more of these moveable effects than any other on the globe, are the most opulent.