# Role of Government and Law in Unto This Last

> Theme guide for Unto This Last by John Ruskin.

The text argues for the necessity of just laws and government intervention to guide the flow of wealth and labor, comparing this to the regulation of rivers, and insists that political economy must be grounded in divine or natural jurisprudence.

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