Note 24 — EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW:
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Book III. § 80. The same idea prevailed with Demosthenes, who, in his First Oration against Aristogiton, pictured the laws as desiring "the just and the beautiful and the useful," which, when found, is set forth in a general ordinance, "equal and alike to all."—Orat. I. contra Aristogit., § 5.