...This chapter describes the events of the revolution as well as its aftermath. The représentants intended gradually to take power at Geneva by means of a new law code. Law would place limits upon the powers of the magistrates by establishing a clear distinction between sovereignty and government...

... deficient persuasiveness could end one's life. The chapter then looks at the works of Alcidamas, Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Demosthenes, and Lycurgus. It also considers the Law Code of Gortyn, which describes a series of laws inscribed on a wall that still stands (as reassembled) in Gortyn in Crete. Homer...

... autonomy yet still treated them as a community. Russia's 1804 legislation aimed to shift Jews out of the liquor trade and into education, artisan crafts, and farming. It integrated them “into” estates, albeit without parity of taxation. Meanwhile, Francis I's Western Galician Law Code (1797) aimed...