![]() Against this fear is our chief safeguard, teaching us to obey the magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the injured, whether they are actually on the statute book, or belong to that code which, although unwritten, yet cannot be broken without acknowledged disgrace. ![]() The war begins when the Spartans decide to lay siege to Athens. The book is divided into eight sections each giving a thorough account of the war. ![]() But all this case in our private relations does not make us lawless as citizens. Thucydides’ spends a great deal of time expounding the causes of the war, the military tactics, and betrayals that led to the Athenian’s defeat. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbour for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences if no social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. ![]() ![]() Its administration favours the many instead of the few this is why it is called a democracy. " Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. ![]()
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