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Our difficulty is that they will be taken to constitute it when it is to the interest of government to do so.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Laski points out the danger of governments misrepresenting public opinion to serve their interests.
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Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
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