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Law, in such an aspect, is clearly a means to the realization of freedom in the same way that the rule of the road will, by its common acceptance, save its observers from accident.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the relationship between law and individual freedom, suggesting that law facilitates freedom rather than restricts it.
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