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Quotation from Laws by Plato
“For that state in which the law is subject and has no authority, I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation”
Laws, Book IV, trans. Jowett
The Athenian explains why he calls magistrates servants or ministers of the law.
Citation: "For that state in which the law is subject and has no authority, I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation" — Plato, Laws, Book IV, trans. Jowett. (id plato-laws-q5)
