1709 - 1785

Nationality:
French

Historical Period:
The 18th Century

Groups

• The French Enlightenment

The Abbé de Mably (1709-1785) was the brother of Condillac and a noted French political writer of republican sympathies who thought the state should redistribute wealth of the grounds of equality.

Titles:

• Author: Remarks concerning the Government and Laws of the United States of America

Quotations:

• The Abbé de Mably argues with John Adams about the dangers of a "commercial elite" seizing control of the new Republic and using it to their own advantage (1785)

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