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Shall we then make a law that hereafter neither Council nor Assembly shall be
permitted to deliberate or to vote on any subject? Not so, in my opinion; for we
ought not to be deprived of our rights, where we have been misled; we ought to
be instructed how to avoid such mistakes, and we ought to make a law, not to
strip us of our own authority, but to punish those who mislead us.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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