Harold J. Laski: “Law, therefore, as coercion is always an invasion of personality, an…”

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Law, therefore, as coercion is always an invasion of personality, an abridgement of the moral stature of those whom it invades.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski critiques the nature of law as a potential infringement on personal autonomy.

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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

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