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Bodies like the legal and medical professions are much better able to direct their own internal life than to have it directed for them by the state.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Bodies like the legal and medical professions are much better able to direct their own internal life than to have it…”
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Laski argues that professions like law and medicine should govern themselves rather than be controlled by the state.
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