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Am I, then, an alien? Where have I paid the
resident alien's tax?1 Or what member of my family has ever paid it? Have
I ever gone to the members of another deme and, because I could not induce them
to accept me, got myself registered in this one? Have I done any of the things
which all those who are not genuine citizens are proved to have done? Certainly
not. No; in a word I manifestly have lived as a member of the deme among the
same people among whom my father's grandfather, my own grandfather, and my
father himself lived. And now, how could anyone prove to you more convincingly
than I have done that he is entitled to the rights of citizenship?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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