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There has accreted today about the departments of state a type of discretionary power which seems to me full of danger unless it is exercised under proper safeguards.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “There has accreted today about the departments of state a type of discretionary power which seems to me full of danger…”
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Laski warns about the dangers of unchecked discretionary power within government departments.
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