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Harold J. Laski: It does not result in the satisfactory enforcement of the law, but in its wider evasion.

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It does not result in the satisfactory enforcement of the law, but in its wider evasion.
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Harold J. Laski

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He argues that ineffective enforcement leads to greater law evasion, undermining the rule of law.

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