The government, for instance, charges a man with treason; obviously he is deprived of something essential to his freedom if the law is strained so as to make of treason something it in fact is not in order to cover the acts which the government seeks to have accepted as treason.
Laski warns against the manipulation of laws by the government, which can undermine individual freedoms and distort justice.
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