Harold J. Laski: “It is, I suggest, obvious folly to attempt legislation which cannot be…”

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It is, I suggest, obvious folly to attempt legislation which cannot be enforced at the critical point of urgency.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski critiques the impracticality of enforcing unenforceable laws.

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Harold J. Laski: “It is, I suggest, obvious folly to attempt legislation which cannot be enforced at the critical point of urgency.”