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What it seeks to do must broadly commend itself, on rational grounds, to those over whose lives its principles are to preside.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “What it seeks to do must broadly commend itself, on rational grounds, to those over whose lives its principles are to…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that laws must be rationally accepted by those they govern to be effective.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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