Harold J. Laski: “Law exists for what it does; and its rightness is made by the attitude…”

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Law exists for what it does; and its rightness is made by the attitude adopted to it by those whose lives it proposes to shape.

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Harold J. Laski

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He posits that the rightness of law is determined by the societal attitudes it shapes, highlighting the relationship between law and society.

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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

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Harold J. Laski: “Law exists for what it does; and its rightness is made by the attitude adopted to it by those whose lives it proposes to…”