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And the law requires the presidents1 to
set out the ballotboxes and to give the ballots to the people as they come up
before the non-citizens have come in and the barriers2 have been removed, in order that every one
of the citizens, being absolutely free from interference, may form his own
judgement regarding the one whom he is about to make a citizen, whether the one
about to be so adopted is worthy of the gift. Furthermore, after this the law
permits to any Athenian who wishes to prefer it an indictment for illegality
against the candidate, and he may come into court and prove that the person in
question is not worthy of the gift, but has been made a citizen contrary to the
laws.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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