The Elements of Politics

Henry Sidgwick

Chapter 3, Footnote #04
``Or not unjust''


I say ``or not unjust'', because it would be commonly recognised that there is an ideal justice which we cannot hope to realise in the legal relations of the members of any actual community. But we shall certainly agree in holding that laws ought not to be unjust.


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