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Besides the laws cited, he has violated many other statutes, which we have not
put on the schedule because they are so numerous. I offer a summary statement.
Take the laws which deal with courts of homicide, and which order the contending
parties to summon one another, or to tender evidence, or to take their oaths, or
which give them any other direction; he has violated every one of them; he has
drafted this decree in contravention of them all. What other account can one
give, when there is no summons, no evidence by witnesses of the fact, no
oath-taking,—when the penalty follows on the heels of the accusation,
and that a penalty forbidden by the laws? Yet all the proceedings I have named
are in use, as ordered by statute, at five different tribunals.1
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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