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Read the
next statute,βor is that all of them?βLawNo decree either of
the Council or of the Assembly shall have superior authority to a
statute.βPut it down.βI take
it, gentlemen, that a very short and easy argument will serve me to prove that
this statute has been violated in the drafting of the decree. When there are so
many statutes, and when a man makes a motion that contravenes every one of them,
and incorporates a private transaction in a decree, how can anyone deny that he
is claiming for his decree authority superior to that of a statute?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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