I can see that a nation might feel an international authority to be oppressive if it sought, say, by an immigration policy seriously to alter the mores of a national life; it should not impose Japanese immigration on California any more than Great Britain seeks to impose it upon Australia.
Laski discusses the potential for international policies to be perceived as oppressive if they significantly alter national cultures.
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The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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