If Hobbes' theory of sovereignty is today one of the commonplaces of jurisprudence, ethically and politically we occupy ourselves with erecting about it a system of limitations each one of which is in some sort due to Locke's perception.
Laski discusses the lasting impact of Locke's ideas on modern jurisprudence.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
Other voices in this conversation
