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Harold J. Laski: Their right to self-government he denied as stoutly as ever George III himself could have desired.

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Their right to self-government he denied as stoutly as ever George III himself could have desired.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that the denial of Americans' right to self-government mirrors the oppressive views of George III.

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