We should fairly universally say that foreign policy and defence, fiscal technique and commercial regulation were naturally within the sphere of the central, and playing fields, were within the sphere of the local, authority.
Laski provides examples of areas where central and local authorities can be clearly defined, illustrating his views on governance.
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We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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.
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.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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