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The history of the struggle for popular freedom has given us knowledge of certain rules in the organization of a state the presence of which is fundamental to freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski discusses the historical lessons learned from the struggle for popular freedom, which inform the organization of a just state.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
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