Since experience makes it evident that a spoils system is incompatible with either honest or efficient administration, a restriction upon the liberty of public officials is, I would argue, justified.
Laski contends that limiting public officials' liberties is necessary to prevent corruption in administration.
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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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