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For Solon, who imposed this method, did
not think it right that while the junior archons, who are appointed by lot to
administer the laws, undergo two scrutinies1 before entering on office, one in the Council and a second in
the law-courts before you, the laws themselves, which regulate their official
acts and all other civic duties, should be passed at haphazard to meet some
emergency, and should be at once valid without passing a scrutiny.
1 To ascertain whether they were duly qualified by birth, by character, and by wealth.
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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