If it is said that the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain would not be justified in calling a general strike to compel the government to make Great Britain a federation, I should agree at once.
Laski agrees that a general strike for federation is unjustified.
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The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.
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