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  1      I, II  |          Homer says:~Each one gives law to his children and to his
  2      I, II  |            but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst
  3      I, III |         slave and freeman exists by law only, and not by nature;
  4      I, VI  |            is a slave or slavery by law as well as by nature. The
  5      I, VI  |           as well as by nature. The law of which I speak is a sort
  6      I, VI  |            a sort of convention—the law by which whatever is taken
  7      I, VI  |           principle of justice (for law and custom are a sort of
  8      I, VI  |       custom of war is justified by law, but at the same moment
  9      I, VI  |            where it rests merely on law and force the reverse is
 10     II, IV  |          word, the result of such a law would be just the opposite
 11     II, VI  |           the rich are compelled by law to attend the assembly and
 12     II, VII |          many for the property, the law must be broken. And, besides
 13     II, VII |        besides the violation of the law, it is a bad thing that
 14     II, VII |             for example, there is a law that a man is not to sell
 15     II, VII |           the original lots. Such a law existed in the island of
 16     II, VII |         citizens. But if there is a law that artisans are to be
 17     II, VIII|        accordingly. To the existing law he objected that it obliged
 18     II, VIII|            all this.~Neither is the law to commended which says
 19     II, VIII|       distinguish; but in courts of law this is impossible, and,
 20     II, VIII|         cannot safely be enacted by law, for it may encourage informers,
 21     II, VIII|            country, even if another law be better. Now, if an changes
 22     II, VIII|        example, at Cumae there is a law about murder, to the effect
 23     II, VIII|             is false; a change in a law is a very different thing
 24     II, VIII|           change in an art. For the law has no power to command
 25     II, VIII|          enfeebles the power of the law. Even if we admit that the
 26     II, IX  |              whether any particular law is good or bad, when compared
 27     II, IX  |            or moderate ones. As the law now stands, a man may bestow
 28     II, IX  |             of property. Again, the law which relates to the procreation
 29     II, IX  |            families; and there is a law at Sparta that the father
 30     II, IX  |         that they run away from the law into the secret indulgence
 31     II, IX  |          rights of citizenship.~The law about the Spartan admirals
 32     II, X   |          head, or, if he fails, the law, as I have already explained,
 33     II, X   |             dispensing with written law, is dangerous. It is no
 34     II, X   |             are better regulated by law than by the will of man,
 35     II, XI  |     generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse
 36     II, XII |   aristocratical, and the courts of law, democratical. The truth
 37     II, XII |             he formed the courts of law out of an the citizens,
 38     II, XII |            the supreme power to the law courts, which are elected
 39     II, XII |    non-democratic element. When the law courts grew powerful, to
 40     II, XII |             meals of women, and the law about drinking, that the
 41     II, XII |            a constitution; he has a law which is peculiar to him,
 42    III, V   |         rich. At Thebes there was a law that no man could hold office
 43    III, V   |              But in many states the law goes to the length of admitting
 44    III, V   |          illegitimate children; the law is relaxed when there is
 45    III, IX  |             members live apart; and law is only a convention, "a
 46    III, X   |           state; and therefore this law of confiscation clearly
 47    III, X   |      supreme power, rather than the law. But what if the law itself
 48    III, X   |            the law. But what if the law itself be democratical or
 49    III, XIII|      pre-eminent virtue there is no law—they are themselves a law.
 50    III, XIII|           law—they are themselves a law. Any would be ridiculous
 51    III, XIV |           Of royalties according to law, (1) the Lacedaemonian is
 52    III, XIV |             kings rule according to law over voluntary subjects,
 53    III, XIV |       government in accordance with law. A third is the power of
 54    III, XV  |           principle which exists in law; and this is a better ruler
 55    III, XV  |           it is innate. Whereas the law is passionless, passion
 56    III, XV  |             authority. But when the law cannot determine a point
 57    III, XV  |             act in violation of the law, but fill up the gaps which
 58    III, XV  |          fill up the gaps which the law is obliged to leave. Or,
 59    III, XV  |          arbitrarily or contrary to law, still he must have some
 60    III, XV  |           wherewith to maintain the law. In the case of a limited
 61    III, XVI |            or kingship according to law, as I have already remarked,
 62    III, XVI |             turn. We thus arrive at law; for an order of succession
 63    III, XVI |         order of succession implies law. And the rule of the law,
 64    III, XVI |            law. And the rule of the law, it is argued, is preferable
 65    III, XVI |      guardians and ministers of the law. For magistrates there must
 66    III, XVI |           indeed be cases which the law seems unable to determine,
 67    III, XVI |             it will be replied, the law trains officers for this
 68    III, XVI |           Therefore he who bids the law rule may be deemed to bid
 69    III, XVI |            are the best of men. The law is reason unaffected by
 70    III, XVI |            mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary
 71    III, XVI |        safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the
 72    III, XVI |            safer than the customary law.~Again, it is by no means
 73    III, XVI |       decide some matters which the law is unable to determine,
 74    III, XVI |        since no one doubts that the law would command and decide
 75    III, XVI |           be comprehended under the law, and this is the origin
 76    III, XVI |           question whether the best law or the best man should rule.
 77    III, XVI |             has been trained by the law judges well; and it would
 78    III, XVII|          himself is in the place of law. Neither should a good man
 79    III, XVII|            and to obey in turn by a law which gives office to the
 80     IV, IV  |             In such a democracy the law says that it is just for
 81     IV, IV  |           government, but still the law is supreme. In another,
 82     IV, IV  |             the government, but the law is supreme as before. A
 83     IV, IV  |           is that in which, not the law, but the multitude, have
 84     IV, IV  |            power, and supersede the law by their decrees. This is
 85     IV, IV  |            which are subject to the law the best citizens hold the
 86     IV, IV  |         longer under the control of law, seeks to exercise monarchical
 87     IV, IV  |             is no constitution. The law ought to be supreme over
 88     IV, V   |             are supreme and not the law. Among oligarchies this
 89     IV, V   |             which is established by law, although not democratic,
 90     IV, VI  |           administered according to law. For the citizens being
 91     IV, VI  |             up the authority of the law, and attend assemblies only
 92     IV, VI  | qualification which is fixed by the law—the absolute exclusion of
 93     IV, VI  |         that in this form again the law must rule. A fourth kind
 94     IV, VI  |           body, it follows that the law must govern, and not individuals.
 95     IV, VI  |         they must admit the rule of law and not claim to rule themselves.
 96     IV, VI  |          enough to rule without the law, they make the law represent
 97     IV, VI  |      without the law, they make the law represent their wishes.
 98     IV, VI  |            their own hands, and the law ordains that the son shall
 99     IV, VI  |        individuals rule and not the law. This is the fourth sort
100     IV, X   |         which are both according to law, and therefore easily pass
101     IV, X   |          monarch rules according to law over willing subjects; but
102     IV, XIII|     magistracies; (3) the courts of law; (4) the use of arms; (5)
103     IV, XIII|            the poor may. (3) In the law courts the rich, and the
104     IV, XIV |             the prohibitions of the law without altering it, and
105     IV, XIV |       former case, they observe the law, the government is a pure
106     IV, XIV |    oligarchies respecting courts of law. For in oligarchies the
107     IV, XIV |        probuli and guardians of the law; and the citizens should
108      V, VI  |    oligarchy which are regulated by law into those which are arbitrary,
109      V, VII |             of the land contrary to law; for the government tended
110      V, VII |        state. At Thurii there was a law that generals should only
111      V, VII |              wanted to abolish this law and allow their generals
112      V, VII |     thinking that, if only this one law was changed, no further
113      V, VIII|          the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small
114      V, VIII|            should be power given by law to raise or lower the qualification
115      V, VIII|    administered and so regulated by law that its magistrates cannot
116      V, VIII|           honors should be given by law to magistrates who have
117      V, IX  |            the human body. The same law of proportion equally holds
118      V, IX  |             multitude are above the law, are always cutting the
119      V, X   |           authority contrary to the law. Royalties do not now come
120      V, XI  |           by officers and courts of law. It is a precaution which
121     VI, II  |             for services; assembly, law courts, magistrates, everybody
122     VI, III |            citizens is to be deemed law. Granted: but not without
123     VI, III |           rich—that is to be deemed law, on which both or the greater
124     VI, IV  |             many states there was a law forbidding any one to sell
125     VI, IV  |            land. There is a similar law attributed to Oxylus, which
126     VI, IV  |            am speaking would be the law of the Aphytaeans, who,
127     VI, V   |         counteract them, and make a law that the property of the
128     VI, VIII|             is loath to execute the law. Still the office is necessary;
129     VI, VIII|    sacrifices, except any which the law assigns to the priests;
130     VI, VIII|             also with the courts of law, with the records of contracts,
131     VI, VIII|             women, guardians of the law, guardians of children,
132     VI, VIII|             states—guardians of the law, probuli, councillors—of
133     VI, VIII|         these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the
134    VII, II  |         campaigns. There was once a law in Macedonia that he who
135    VII, II  |         some of them established by law and others by custom. Yet
136    VII, III |       therefore he who violates the law can never recover by any
137    VII, IV  |             result will follow. For law is order, and good law is
138    VII, IV  |          For law is order, and good law is good order; but a very
139    VII, IX  |            and determine matters of law, and these seem in an especial
140    VII, X   |             as tradition says, by a law of Sesostris in Egypt and
141    VII, X   |         honor. Wherefore there is a law in some places which forbids
142    VII, XII |            of those rites which the law or the Pythian oracle has
143    VII, XIV |            No such principle and no law having this object is either
144    VII, XVI |            children, let there be a law that no deformed child shall
145    VII, XVII|         Gods at whose festivals the law permits even ribaldry, and
146    VII, XVII|         even ribaldry, and whom the law also permits to be worshipped
147   VIII, II  |    education should be regulated by law and should be an affair