Naturally enough, there was a vast difference between the simplicity of a government where sovereignty was the monarch's will and one in which a complex distribution of powers was found to secure a general freedom.
Laski contrasts the simplicity of monarchical sovereignty with the complexity of a government that ensures freedom through power distribution.
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