No one can doubt but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor." It is clear that we have moved far from the narrow confines of the old political arithmetic.
Laski argues that a more equitable society enhances the happiness of the poor without significantly diminishing that of the rich, a perspective on social justice.
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The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.
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