He must have known that to talk of the independence of the branches of the legislature was simple nonsense at a time when King and peers competed for the control of elections to the House of Commons.
Laski argues against the notion of legislative independence during a time of political competition between the monarchy and peers.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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