That division into government and subjects which is its main characteristic is here noteworthy for the narrowness of the class from which the government is derived, and the consistent inertia of those over whom it rules.
Laski critiques the limited social class representation in government and the passive nature of the governed.
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When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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