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The opinion of Chief Justice Cockburn could not have made the issue more clear; it is a landmark in the judicial history of freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The opinion of Chief Justice Cockburn could not have made the issue more clear; it is a landmark in the judicial history…”
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Laski highlights the significance of a judicial opinion that has shaped the understanding of freedom in legal history.
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Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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