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If I prove that the collectors of the truths
passed this resolution,—if I make it evident that, according to this
decree, the letters were removed, what more would you wait for? Can I produce to you
any affair more absolutely decided? Can I bring before your tribunal any criminal
more fully condemned? But condemned by whose judgment? By that, forsooth, of those
men whom they who wish for severe tribunals think ought to decide on
causes,—by the judgment of the farmers, whom the people is now demanding
to have for judges, and concerning whom, that we may have them for judges, we at
this moment see a law proposed, not by a man of our body, not by a man born of the
equestrian order, not by a man of the noblest birth:
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