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# Commercial Order and Government Introduction
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## Definition
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The gradual process by which commerce and manufactures introduce regular
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government, individual liberty and security to rural areas that previously
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experienced continual war with neighbours and servile dependency on superiors,
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representing the most important but least observed effect of commercial
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development.
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## Source Chapter
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Book III, Chapter 4
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## Context
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Smith's third mechanism for rural improvement, arguing that commercial society
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fundamentally transforms social relations by giving landowners something to
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exchange their surplus produce for, breaking their dependence on retainers and
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allowing the establishment of regular government and individual rights.
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## Economic Domain
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Regulation
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