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That worship of symmetrical form which underlies the constitutional experiments of the next few years he exposed in a sentence which has in it the essence of political wisdom.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski identifies a critical insight into the dangers of overly structured constitutional designs in politics.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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