Harold J. Laski: “We know that Parliament is unlikely to do any of these things because…”

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We know that Parliament is unlikely to do any of these things because omnicompetence, when gravely abused, ceases to be omnicompetent.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski suggests that Parliament's potential for abuse diminishes its overall competence.

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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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Harold J. Laski: “We know that Parliament is unlikely to do any of these things because omnicompetence, when gravely abused, ceases to be…”