Harold J. Laski: “The state is justified, in the interest of the community, in placing…”

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The state is justified, in the interest of the community, in placing an absolute embargo upon the political activities of all their members.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that the state has the right to prohibit political activities of certain officials for community interest.

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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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Harold J. Laski: “The state is justified, in the interest of the community, in placing an absolute embargo upon the political activities…”