Political Science · Political Theory
Who among the following stated that, 'Every State is known by the rights that it maintains'?
AHarold J. Laski ✓ Correct
BT.H. Green
CImmanuel Kant
DTom Paine
Correct answer: (A) Harold J. Laski — Harold Laski made this statement, so the answer is Harold Laski.
Explanation
★Harold Laski made this statement, so the answer is Harold Laski.
★For Laski rights are those conditions of social life without which no one can be his best self.
★A state proves its worth by the range and security of the rights it actually guarantees to citizens.
★He developed this in his major work A Grammar of Politics, a classic of modern liberal-socialist theory.
★Rights, for him, are not against the state but are sustained by an active, welfare-oriented state.
★Green linked rights to the moral common good, and Kant to rational autonomy, in different ways.
★Tom Paine championed natural rights in his pamphlets, but this exact dictum belongs to Laski.
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