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Page 297 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 541 - is rather profound than prominent. On the one hand, in popular discussion of forms and changes of Government, the judicial organ often drops out of sight ; on the other hand, in determining a nation's rank in political civilisation, no test is more decisive than the degree in which justice, as defined by the law, is actually realised in its judicial administration, both as between one private citizen and another, and as between private citizens and members of the government.
Page 142 - I mean the eager maintenance of that atmosphere in which men have the opportunity to be their best selves.
Page 222 - One hardly knows what any division of the human race should be free to do, if not to determine with which of the various collective bodies of human beings they choose to associate themselves.
Page 171 - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Page 222 - For the preceding reasons, it is in general a necessary condition of free institutions that the boundaries of governments should coincide in the main with those of nationalities.
Page 335 - dealing with national defence, international relations, and the administration of justice, needs to be set apart from what we propose to call the Social Democracy, to which is entrusted the national administration of the industries and services by and through which the community lives. The sphere of the one is Verwaltung, autoritt regalienne, police power ; that of the other is Wirthschaft, gestion, housekeeping.
Page 21 - The modern state is a territorial society divided into government and subjects claiming, within its allotted physical area, a supremacy over all other institutions.
Page 572 - Laski, that it should tend to conservatism. It is largely engaged in the study of precedent. What it can do is most often set by the statutes of a preceding generation. Its chief exponents are, as a rule, men already well past middle age who come to positions of authority just when new wants they have not known are coming to be expressed. Lawyers, in fact, are more definitely the servants of tradition than any other class in the community; for the demonstration that novelty is desirable is, with...
Page 313 - They distort the issues that they create. They produce divisions in the electorate which very superficially represent the way in which opinion is in fact distributed. They secure, at best, an incomplete and compromising loyalty. They falsify the perspective of the issues they create. They build about persons allegiance which should go to ideas. They build upon the unconscious and they force the judgment of men into the service of their prejudices. Yet, when the last criticism of party has been made,...