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For in those days, indeed, while they legislated in
that way, they kept to the existing laws and were not always proposing new ones;
but ever since certain statesmen rose to power and, as I am informed, contrived
to get into their own hands the right to initiate legislation at any time and in
any way they wished, there are so many contradictory statutes that for a long
time you have had to appoint a commission to sort out the contradictory ones;
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