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Harold J. Laski: They were buried beneath a mountain of metaphysical right which they never related to legal facts or to political…

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They were buried beneath a mountain of metaphysical right which they never related to legal facts or to political possibility.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that metaphysical concepts of rights often ignore practical legal and political realities.

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