Political Science · Political Theory
'State is known by the rights that it maintains', who said this?
ARussell
BWoodrow Wilson
CJanet
DLaski ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Laski — This statement was made by Harold Laski, so the answer is Laski.
Explanation
★This statement was made by Harold Laski, so the answer is Laski.
★It expresses his belief that the worth of a state lies in the rights it secures for its people.
★For Laski rights are conditions of social life essential to the development of personality.
★A state that guards a wide range of rights is, by that measure, a better and more legitimate state.
★The saying comes from his classic work A Grammar of Politics.
★Russell and Woodrow Wilson worked on philosophy and on international order, not this dictum.
★Janet gave a state-and-government definition of politics but did not author this line.
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