Harold J. Laski: “It lacks the essential element of consent without which the binding force of law is absent.”

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

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.