A crisis comes which touches us; a decision is made which contradicts something we happen to have experienced as fundamental; we then judge our rulers by the fact of that denial, and act as we think its terms warrant.
Laski discusses how crises can lead to public judgment of rulers based on their actions contradicting fundamental experiences.
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