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For after the disasters to the Greek
forces at Chaeroneia, when the very foundations of our State were threatened
with the utmost danger, when Hypereides proposed that the disfranchised citizens
should be reinstated in order that, if any such danger should menace our State,
all classes might unite wholeheartedly in the struggle for liberty, the
defendant indicted this decree as unconstitutional and conducted his case in
court.
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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