TOPICS OF THE DAY
Self-Government Principles “No system of representative government has a history so continuous or so successful as that of Great Britain,” writes Professor Harold Laski. “Successful representative government requires something more than intelligence and virtue. It presupposes a body of citizens who are fundamentally at one upon all the major objects of governmental activity; so fundamentally at one, it may be added, that the thought of conflict as a way of change is incapable of entering the minds of more than an insignificant portion of the nation. It requires, in the second place, a sense in the nation that no single class of any importance in the community is permanently excluded from power. A third condition is that it should be built upon widely diffused habits of tolerance throughout the nation. Men who are to live together peacefully must be able to argue together peacefully. They must not run to suppress criticism of tilings a- they are; rather they must be willing, if pressed, to invite examination. They
must refrain from pressing upon a significant minority principles of legislation by which the latter is outraged.”.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20691, 29 December 1938, Page 6
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