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The constitutional ideas of the seventeenth century had no substance for an England where Anglicanism and agriculture were beginning to lose the rigid outlines of overwhelming predominance.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the constitutional ideas of the seventeenth century became irrelevant as societal structures evolved.
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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.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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