The German system, of laying down what a local authority may not do, and leaving it free to experiment outside that realm of prohibition, seems to me superior both in principle and result to its Anglo-American antithesis.
Laski critiques the German and Anglo-American systems of local governance, advocating for a more flexible approach to local authority.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
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