To read the history of England before the enfranchisement of the wage-earner is to realize that however small is the value of the franchise it still assures the attention of government to grievance.
Laski reflects on the historical significance of the franchise in addressing grievances in England.
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The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
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