We should resent it if a football club passed resolutions upon the foreign policy of a government; and it is in the same way illegitimate for a trade union to deal with matters outside its sphere.
Laski draws a parallel between trade unions and football clubs to illustrate limits on their influence.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
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