The government, for instance, charges a man with treason; obviously he is deprived of something essential to his freedom if the law is strained so as to make of treason something it in fact is not in order to cover the acts which the government seeks to have accepted as treason.
Laski warns against the manipulation of laws by the government, which can undermine individual freedoms and distort justice.
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What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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