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In the first place, they
entrusted to you citizens the decision whether a new law is to be introduced or
the existing laws judged satisfactory. Then, if your vote is in favour of
introduction, they did not order immediate enactment, but appointed the next
assembly but one, and even at that assembly, they do not permit you to
legislate, but only to consider the terms on which the Legislative Committee
shall sit. In the intervening time they instructed persons wishing to introduce
laws to exhibit them in front of the Heroes, so that anyone who chooses may
inspect them, and, if he discovers anything injurious to the public interest,
may inform you and have time to speak against the laws.
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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