2. Of the Republican Government, and the Laws in relation to
Democracy.
[1]
The Spirit of the Laws | ||
Footnotes
[7]
See in the "Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Romans," 9, how this spirit of Servius Tullius was preserved in the republic.
[8]
Dionysius Halicarnassus, "Eulogium of Isocrates," ii, p. 97, ed. Wechel. Pollux, viii. 10, art. 130.
[12]
They used even to draw two tickets for each place, one which gave the place, and the other which named the person who was to succeed, in case the first was rejected.
[14]
They were called leges tabulares; two tablets were presented to each citizen, the first marked with an A, for Antiquo, or I forbid it; and the other with an U and an R, for Uti rogas, or Be it as you desire.
2. Of the Republican Government, and the Laws in relation to
Democracy.
[1]
The Spirit of the Laws | ||