He trusted too emphatically to the power of mechanisms to realize that institutions which allowed of such manipulation as that of George III could not be satisfactory once the people had awakened to a sense of its own power.
Laski critiques the reliance on institutional mechanisms in political thought, emphasizing the awakening of people's power.
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