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“But if, as happens under an oligarchy, not the majority, but a minority meet and enact rules of conduct, what are these?”“Whatsoever the sovereign power in the State, after deliberation, enacts and directs to be done is known as a law.”“If, then, a despot, being the sovereign power, enacts what the citizens are to do, are his orders also a law?”“Yes, whatever a despot as ruler enacts is also known as a law.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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