On the record
The right, therefore, to the franchise is essential to liberty; and a citizen excluded from it is unfree.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThe right, therefore, to the franchise is essential to liberty; and a citizen excluded from it is unfree.
Laski emphasizes that the right to vote is fundamental to the concept of liberty.
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