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“Before the meeting of
the Assembly any Athenian citizen who wishes shall write down the laws
proposed by him and exhibit the same in front of the Eponymous Heroes, to
the end that the People may vote on the question of the time allowed to the
Legislative Committee with due regard to the total number of laws proposed.
Whosoever proposes a new statute shall write it on a white hoard and exhibit
it in front of the Heroes on every day until the meeting of the Assembly. On
the eleventh day of the month Hecatombaeon the people shall elect from the
whole body of citizens five persons to speak in defence of laws proposed for
repeal before the Legislative Committee.”
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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