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  1     II, IV  |         the opposite of which good laws ought to have, and the intention
  2     II, V   |       might be by good customs and laws, would be far better, and
  3     II, V   |       philosophy or by customs and laws, like those which prevail
  4     II, V   |        citizens will not need many laws, for example laws about
  5     II, V   |        need many laws, for example laws about the city or about
  6     II, V   |     education, form of government, laws of the lower class, Socrates
  7     II, VI  |            Plato’s later work, the Laws, and therefore we had better
  8     II, VI  |           of the guardians. In the Laws there is hardly anything
  9     II, VI  |       there is hardly anything but laws; not much is said about
 10     II, VI  |          difference is that in the Laws, the common meals are extended
 11     II, VI  |    incapable of division as in the Laws, the supernumeraries, whether
 12     II, VI  |        different sizes: but in the Laws the opposite principle is
 13     II, VI  |            another omission in the Laws: Socrates does not tell
 14     II, VI  |       habits of daily life. In the Laws it is maintained that the
 15     II, VI  |       constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy
 16     II, VI  |          which is described in the Laws.~
 17     II, VII |         receive them.~Plato in the Laws was of opinion that, to
 18     II, VII |            But those who make such laws should remember what they
 19     II, VII |            of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others
 20     II, VII |       pleased; and there are other laws in states which forbid the
 21     II, VII |             Again, there have been laws which enjoin the preservation
 22     II, VII |       education is provided by the laws. But Phaleas will probably
 23     II, VIII|        husbandmen. He also divided laws into three classes, and
 24     II, VIII|            make any changes in the laws of a country, even if another
 25     II, VIII|          really destructive to the laws or to the constitution.
 26     II, VIII|             The remains of ancient laws which have come down to
 27     II, VIII|           their notions. Even when laws have been written down,
 28     II, VIII|     sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed; but when
 29     II, VIII|            of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the
 30     II, VIII|          to change from old to new laws enfeebles the power of the
 31     II, VIII|          Even if we admit that the laws are to be changed, are they
 32     II, IX  |           be regarded as having no laws. And this is what has actually
 33     II, IX  |          bring the women under his laws, they resisted, and he gave
 34     II, IX  |         this is due also to faulty laws; for, although the legislator
 35     II, IX  |         the faulty nature of their laws respecting property; for
 36     II, IX  |          written rules, and to the laws. Their way of life, too,
 37     II, IX  |         which Plato brings, in the Laws, against the intention of
 38     II, X   |           governed by the original laws which Minos is supposed
 39     II, XII |          these some have only made laws, others have framed constitutions;
 40     II, XII |            were Zaleucus, who gave laws to the Epizephyrian Locrians,
 41     II, XII |           the Corinthian, who gave laws to the Thebans. This Philolaus
 42     II, XII |        other enactments, gave them laws about the procreation of
 43     II, XII |     children, which they call the "Laws of Adoption." These laws
 44     II, XII |           Laws of Adoption." These laws were peculiar to him, and
 45     II, XII |      denunciation for perjury. His laws are more exact and more
 46     II, XII |         the other.)~Draco has left laws, but he adapted them to
 47     II, XII |         Androdamas of Rhegium gave laws to the Chalcidians of Thrace.
 48    III, IX  |        intercourse, and there were laws among them that they should
 49    III, XI  |         nothing so clearly as that laws, when good, should be supreme;
 50    III, XI  |          matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with
 51    III, XI  |     particulars. But what are good laws has not yet been clearly
 52    III, XI  |           justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with
 53    III, XI  |        however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions.
 54    III, XI  |        will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of
 55    III, XI  |        government will have unjust laws.~
 56    III, XIII|        desires to make the justest laws ought to legislate with
 57    III, XIII|   ridiculous who attempted to make laws for them: they would probably
 58    III, XV  |            falls under the head of laws rather than of constitutions;
 59    III, XV  |            best man or by the best laws.~The advocates of royalty
 60    III, XV  |          royalty maintain that the laws speak only in general terms,
 61    III, XV  |        acting according to written laws is plainly not the best.
 62    III, XV  |          then, must legislate, and laws must be passed, but these
 63    III, XV  |          must be passed, but these laws will have no authority when
 64    III, XVI |          amendment of the existing laws which experience suggests.
 65    III, XVI |         the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate
 66    III, XVI |    important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer
 67    III, XVII|          of all, whether there are laws, or whether there are no
 68    III, XVII|            or whether there are no laws, but he himself is in the
 69     IV, I   |         enable a man to know which laws are the best, and which
 70     IV, I   |   different constitutions; for the laws are, and ought to be, relative
 71     IV, I   |            the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization
 72     IV, I   |         end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded
 73     IV, I   |         only with a view to making laws. For the same laws cannot
 74     IV, I   |          making laws. For the same laws cannot be equally suited
 75     IV, IV  |          demagogues; but where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues
 76     IV, IV  |            the people override the laws, by referring all things
 77     IV, IV  | constitution at all; for where the laws have no authority, there
 78     IV, V   |          upon their opponents. The laws which existed previously
 79     IV, VI  |     supreme power is vested in the laws, because the state has no
 80     IV, VI  |           majority, and not by the laws.~So many kinds of democracies
 81     IV, VIII|            must remember that good laws, if they are not obeyed,
 82     IV, VIII|       obedience of citizens to the laws, the other part is the goodness
 83     IV, VIII|        part is the goodness of the laws which they obey; they may
 84     IV, VIII|            obey; they may obey bad laws as well as good. And there
 85     IV, VIII|           may obey either the best laws which are attainable to
 86     IV, IX  |           mode we must combine the laws made by both governments,
 87     IV, XII |        government; if he makes his laws oligarchical, to the middle
 88     IV, XII |           he should equally by his laws try to attach this class
 89     IV, XIII|            impunity, or, as in the laws of Charondas, a larger fine
 90     IV, XIV |      unmaking alliances; it passes laws, inflicts death, exile,
 91     IV, XIV |         elect magistrates, to pass laws, to advise about war and
 92     IV, XIV |       father, and they and not the laws are supreme—the government
 93     IV, XIV |          are supreme even over the laws), with a view to better
 94     IV, XV  |       require the same offices and laws as large ones; the difference
 95      V, V   |         even to set them above the laws. A more or less complete
 96      V, VIII|        endeavor too by help of the laws to control the contentions
 97      V, VIII|        once. Especially should the laws provide against any one
 98      V, IX  |          another form; for when by laws carried to excess one or
 99      V, IX  |    universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every
100      V, IX  |           the constitution, if the laws are democratical, democratically
101      V, IX  |          or oligarchically, if the laws are oligarchical. For there
102      V, XII |          great extent observed the laws; and in various ways gained
103      V, XII |         many oligarchies there are laws against making money in
104     VI, IV  |         class. Some of the ancient laws of most states were, all
105     VI, IV  |           unless well regulated by laws and customs. The more general
106     VI, V   |          elements, and should make laws, whether written or unwritten,
107    VII, II  |         the entire aim both of the laws and of the constitution
108    VII, II  |        although in most cities the laws may be said generally to
109    VII, II  |         greater part of the of the laws are framed with a view to
110    VII, II  |        some nations there are even laws tending to stimulate the
111    VII, II  |    well-administered and have good laws); but such a city would
112    VII, VI  |   strangers brought up under other laws, and the increase of population,
113    VII, VI  |      easily guarded against by the laws, which will pronounce and
114    VII, X   |      husbandmen, and besides other laws which he gave them, was
115    VII, X   |      institution and certain other laws of his. On the side of Italy
116    VII, X   |        most ancient; and they have laws and a regular constitution
117    VII, XIV |            view when he frames his laws; he should consider the
118    VII, XIV |         end, or to have given them laws and education with a view
119    VII, XIV |           in the observance of his laws and no one interferes with
120    VII, XVII|       Those are wrong who in their laws attempt to check the loud