According to this determination, the corporation has, under the supervision of the public power, the right to attend to its own interests enclosed within it, to admit members according to the objective qualification of their skill and rectitude, in a number determined by the general context, and to bear, for those belonging to it, care against particular contingencies, as well as for the culture needed for the capacity to be admitted into it — in general, to step in for them as a second family, a position which remains more indeterminate for civil society at large, being more remote from individuals and their particular want.

The tradesman is different from the day-labourer, as from one who is ready for a single, contingent service. The former, who is, or wishes to become, a master, is a member of the association not for a single, contingent acquisition, but for the whole compass, the universal, of his particular subsistence. — Privileges, as the rights of a branch of civil society comprised within a corporation, are distinguished from privileges proper, according to their etymology, in this: that the latter are exceptions from the universal law, according to contingency, while the former are merely legally made determinations that lie in the nature of the particularity of an essential branch of society itself.