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“Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate…” quote by Aristotle — Download Open image

“Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.”

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