The substitution of arbitrary will for law, the corruption of Parliament by packing it with the prince's instruments, betrayal to a foreign prince, prevention of the due assemblage of Parliament--all these are a perversion of the trust imposed and operate to effect the dissolution of the contract.
Laski critiques the corruption of parliamentary processes as a violation of the social contract.
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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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