Granted that the people are educated to the appreciation of their purpose, they serve to draw attention, as attention needs to be drawn, to the fact that vigilance is essential in the realm of what Cromwell called fundamentals.
Laski emphasizes the necessity of vigilance in protecting fundamental rights, drawing on historical references.
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The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
But if the Church is not a supernatural institution, what is its nature?
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