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The disposition of the legislative power is the fundamental test of type; for executive and judiciary are clearly dependent on it.
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Harold J. Laski
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This statement underscores the significance of legislative power in determining the nature of government.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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