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The fact always emerges that once the operation of justice is transferred from the ordinary courts to some branch of the executive, abuses always occur.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns against the dangers of transferring justice to executive power, highlighting the potential for abuse.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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