This would not permit a body of burglars to take over from Proudhon the principle that property is theft and assume their right to restore it to themselves; but it would justify, to take the case of principles I personally abhor, a society of Mormons practising polygamy in a society like that of the United States.
Laski uses the example of Mormons practicing polygamy to illustrate the limits of societal interference.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
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.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
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