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Comment: “Because the society is federal, the authority must also be federal”. (Laski)

  • UPSC 2007, 2004
  • Theories of the State

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The formula belongs to Harold J. Laski's pluralist writings of 1917–25, from Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917) to A Grammar of Politics (1925). It is the constructive half of his attack on monistic sovereignty. If social life is organised through many groups, legal authority must be distributed among them as well.

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