There have been, further, many occasions when breaches of fundamental principles of freedom, breaches which, on any showing, have been quite indefensible, have been followed at once by Acts of Indemnity.
Laski discusses the troubling pattern of ignoring fundamental freedoms and the subsequent legal responses that follow.
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