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To be free a people must be able to choose its rulers at stated intervals simply because there is no other way in which their wants, as they experience those wants, will receive attention.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the importance of electoral choice for citizens as a means to ensure their needs are recognized by the government.
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