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Harold J. Laski: I argue, therefore, that voluntary bodies are entitled outside the realm where their ideas and conduct are intended…

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I argue, therefore, that voluntary bodies are entitled outside the realm where their ideas and conduct are intended directly to alter the law, or to arrest the continuity of general social habits, to believe what they please and to practise what they please.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues for the rights of voluntary organizations to operate freely unless they directly challenge the law.

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