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I know of no case where the state has exercised extraordinary power outside the normal process of law, in which that authority has not been grossly abused.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski claims that extraordinary state powers outside normal law processes have historically been abused.
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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.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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