No principle is better established than the right of the citizen, under proper circumstances, to a writ of habeas corpus; that is, perhaps, the ark of the covenant in the Anglo-American conception of freedom.
Laski highlights the fundamental right to habeas corpus as central to the Anglo-American understanding of freedom.
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When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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