And even the impatient reformer ought sometimes to think whether, say, forcing a child-labour law on Georgia by federal amendment will lead to a genuine and whole-hearted application of its terms; whether, in fact, it will not persuade to hatred of the law, even contempt for the law, by encouraging evasion of it.
Laski warns that imposing federal laws without local support may lead to resentment and noncompliance.
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It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
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