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Not the least important problem of our time is that which arises when the legality of their administration is in question.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski highlights the critical issue of legality in the administration of laws, which is a pressing concern in contemporary governance.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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