It is, I think, essential that, as with the English law of treason, the government should be compelled to prove the commission of some overt act which directly tends to imminent rebellion in a court of law, and to bring two witnesses at least to bear testimony to its commission.
Laski emphasizes the importance of legal proof in cases of treason to protect individual liberties.
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But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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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