...legislative power always strive to maintain it. It must see to it that no man becomes rich enough to be able to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. That this view contains nothing visionary has been shown by later times, for the equalisation of social...

...virtue of station and of the laws ; while, as to wealthLno citizen should be rich enough to be able to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself,*; which supposes, on the part of the great, moderation in property and influence, and, on the part of...

...virtue of station and of the laws ; while, as to wealth, no citizen should be rich enough to be able to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself,* which supposes, on the part of the great, moderation in property and influence, and, on the part of...

...and wealth are to be absolutely the same, but that... in regard to wealth no citizen shall be rich enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.... It is just because the force of circumstances is always tending to destroy equality, that the force...

...(Sur It Gouverncmenl de la Pologne, ch. xi.), in which "no citizen should be rich enough to be able to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself" (CS, ii. 11). To bring this about, a state should give itself to agriculture, multiplying useful commodities...

...strongly objected to any individual having too much of it. He held that ' no citizen should be rich enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.' He wished all surplus wealth to be diverted to the coffers of the State and to be used in the general...

...understand, not that the degrees of power and riches are to be absolutely identical for everybody; but that power shall never be great enough for violence,...and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself: which implies, on the part of the great, moderation in goods and position, and, on the side of the...

...should understand, not that the degrees of power . . . are to be absolutely identical for everybody, but that power shall never be great enough for violence...and shall always be exercised by virtue of rank and law."36 On matters where interests are identical, equal power is irrelevant. "In a word, it is the...

...enterprise. These limits cannot be precisely defined, but Rousseau stated the general criterion well: "no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself."33 Economic inequality of such dimensions undermines the moral equality essential to unconstrained...

...goods, services, and values. Rousseau, who advocated a relatively equal distribution of property so that "no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none too poor to be forced to sell himself," and who believed in participation as a good in itself, influenced...