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Men like Bolingbroke, Carteret and the elder Pitt were all of them dissatisfied with a system which depended for its existence upon the exclusion of able men from power.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski critiques the political system of his time, noting the exclusion of capable individuals from power as a significant issue.
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