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Such, men
of Athens, are the purposes for
which the provisional resolution was moved, in the hope that it would be
ratified by a deluded Assembly; and such the reasons why we, desiring to
frustrate its ratification, have brought this present indictment. As I have
undertaken to prove three propositions,—first that the decree is
unconstitutional, secondly that it is injurious to the common weal, and thirdly
that the person in whose favour it has been moved is unworthy of such
privilege,—it is, perhaps, fair that I should allow you, who are to
hear me, to choose what you wish to hear first, and second, and last.
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