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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
This quote reflects Laski's critique of governments that fail to address the will of the majority.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
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