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The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.

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Leonard Hobhouse

Leonard Hobhouse

Born: September 8, 1864
Died: June 21, 1929 (aged 64)
Bio: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism.
Known for:
  1. Mind in Evolution (1901)
  2. Democracy and reaction (1904)
  3. The elements of social justice (1922)
  4. Metaphysical theory of the state (1918)

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