And exactly as we cannot admit the right of a man to make his own law in the internal life of the community, so we cannot allow the single nation-state to make its own law in the wider life of the international community.
Laski draws a parallel between individual and national law-making, advocating for a collective international legal framework.
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The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
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