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The logic, indeed, of habitual government suppression seems to be that abnormal opinion is always dangerous because, if it is acted upon, the supremacy of the law will be endangered.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski critiques the assumption that dissenting opinions are inherently dangerous to the law.
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The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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