Harold J. Laski: “Election, re-election, a power in the government to dismiss, are all…”

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Election, re-election, a power in the government to dismiss, are all of them incompatible with the function the judge is to perform.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that political influences undermine the essential functions of judges.

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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

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Harold J. Laski: “Election, re-election, a power in the government to dismiss, are all of them incompatible with the function the judge is…”