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Where constitutional reform was in debate no man saw more clearly than he the evils that needed remedy; though, to a later generation, his own schemes bear the mark of timid conservatism.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski critiques the cautious nature of certain political reform proposals in historical context.
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