Harold J. Laski: “I want to draw therefrom the inference that national sovereignty and…”

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I want to draw therefrom the inference that national sovereignty and the international community confront one another as incompatibles.

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Laski argues that national sovereignty and the international community are fundamentally at odds.

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Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

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