He thinks the constitution very well as it is, and those who preach the evils of corruption ought to prove their charges instead of blasphemously asserting that the voice of the people is the voice of God.
Laski defends the current constitution against critics who claim it is corrupt, arguing for the legitimacy of popular opinion.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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