For at the back of each governmental act, there is, in his own mind, an active citizen body occupied in judging it with single-minded reference to the law of nature and their own natural rights.
This quote reflects Laski's belief in the active role of citizens in evaluating government actions based on natural rights.
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But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
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