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Justice was asserted to be the centre of social right; and it was defined as the overthrow of those prescriptive privileges which Burke regarded as the protective armour of the body politic.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski discusses the concept of justice as a fundamental principle in social rights, opposing traditional privileges.
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