Bastiat argues that the law should be the collective organization of justice, protecting individual life, liberty, and property as natural rights without creating artificial ones. He denounces "legal plunder," where the state, under the pretense of philanthropy, violates these rights through coercive interventions like redistribution or protectionism. Bastiat warns that such perversion of the law fuels an overreaching state, undermining freedom and prosperity. He advocates for a minimal state, limited to ensuring justice, as the foundation for a free society.