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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The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
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