The business of government had been made the private possession of a privileged class; and eagerness for desirable change was, in the mass, absent from the minds of most men engaged in its direction.
Laski highlights the exclusionary nature of government and the lack of public engagement in political change.
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What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
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.
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