Harold J. Laski: “For in any meeting of church and state, the latter will assert its…”

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For in any meeting of church and state, the latter will assert its paramountcy; and a church has no alternative but to deny that assertion.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that in the relationship between church and state, the state will always seek to assert its dominance.

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

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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