The answer to a morally bankrupt aristocracy is surely not the overwhelming effort required in its purification when the plaintiff is the people; for the mere fact that the people is the plaintiff is already evidence of its fitness for power.
Laski argues that the people's demand for power is evidence of their readiness to govern.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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