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CH. VIII.]

THE LEGISLATURE.

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in the other, the plebeian predominated. And yet, during the co-existence of these two legislatures, the Roman republic attained to the supposed pinnacle of human greatness.^[1]

↑ The Federalist, No. 34.

[1] The Federalist, No. 34.

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