Note A2-1-7 — Chapter III

The obstacles placed in the way of importation by governments originated, in great part, from views entertained on sumptuary legislation; in that of exportation, from a desire to prevent a scarcity of certain articles, as may be clearly seen in Patricius (De Inst. Reipublic., V, 10, I, 8), and even in Sully (Mémoires, XI, XII, XIII, but especially XII), Bornitz, Besold, Klock and v. Seckendorf. (Compare Roscher, Gesch., I, 191, 202, 215, 247.) But the mercantilistic germs show themselves even in Hutten and Luther. (Roscher, I, 44, 63.) The advance made between the police ordinance of the empire of 1530 and that of 1548, is very remarkable in this respect. The mercantile theory of duties appears very systematically elaborated even in J. Bodinus, De Republica, 1577, VI, 2; in Germany in Hörnigk, Oesterreich über Alles, ch. 9.