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The modern state is a sovereign state, and in terms of that title no will can bind its purpose but its own.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The modern state is a sovereign state, and in terms of that title no will can bind its purpose but its own.”
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Laski asserts the sovereignty of the modern state and its autonomy in decision-making.
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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.
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.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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.
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