...logical pressure of the other. If there is a free contract, in open market, between capital and labour, it cannot be right that one of the two contracting...these securities, all these advantages, should be on the same side. It is monstrous that they should be all on the side that has least urgent need of...

...logical pressure of the other. If there is a free contract, in open market, between capital and labour, it cannot be right that one of the two contracting...of justice, the distribution of taxes, the control 1881 of expenditure, in its own hands exclusively. It is unjust that all these securities, all these...

...reciprocal fitting of needs," it cannot be right, as Acton said,1 that one party should have retained " the making of the laws, the management of the conditions,...control of expenditure, in its own hands exclusively." Reciprocal fitting only takes place where there is equality of power between the parties to the adjustment....

...reciprocal fitting of needs," it cannot be right, as Acton said,1 that one party should have retained " the making of the laws, the management of the conditions,...control of expenditure, in its own hands exclusively." Reciprocal fitting only takes place where there is equality of power between the parties to the adjustment....

..."If there is a free contract," wrote Lord Acton in 1881, in open market, between capital and labour, it cannot be right that one of the two contracting...control of expenditure, in its own hands exclusively . . . Justice required that property should — not abdicate, but — share its political supremacy....

..."If there is a free contract," wrote Lord Acton in 1881, in open market, between capital and labour, it cannot be right that one of the two contracting...keeping of the peace, the administration of justice, the d1stribution of taxes, the control of expenditure, in its own hands exclusively . . . Justice required...