And anyone who surveys the history of Church and State in America will be tempted to assert that in the last hundred years the separateness for which Locke contended is not without its justification.
Laski reflects on the relevance of Locke's ideas about Church and State in America.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
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