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In my opinion, nothing. I have been told
that in time past popular government was overthrown in this way, when
indictments for illegal legislation were abolished, and courts of justice were
stripped of authority. Someone may perhaps object that, when I talk of
subverting popular government, I am ignoring the difference of conditions
between that time and this. Yes, but no man ought even to drop the seed of such
a policy in our commonwealth, though for the moment it may not germinate; rather
should every man who by word or deed attempts anything of the kind be brought to
justice.
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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