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Now
I propose to reckon up how I have fulfilled the promises I made at the outset of
my address. I undertook to prove that he is amenable to the indictment in every
respect, first, because he legislated illegally; secondly, because his proposals
were contrary to existing statutes; and thirdly, because they were injurious to
the commonwealth. Well, you have now heard the statutes, and what they enjoin
upon the author of a new law; and again I have satisfied you that the defendant
has not observed any one of those injunctions.
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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