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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: three several occasions in particular: first, when as president
(Epistates) of the assembly he would not suffer the sovereign people
to take an unconstitutional vote,[3] but ventured, on the side of the
laws, to resist a current of popular feeling strong enough, I think,
to have daunted any other man. Again, when the Thirty tried to lay
some injunction on him contrary to the laws, he refused to obey, as
for instance when they forbade his conversing with the young;[4] or
again, when they ordered him and certain other citizens to arrest a
man to be put to death,[5] he stood out single-handed on the ground
that the injunctions laid upon him were contrary to the laws. And
lastly, when he appeared as defendant in the suit instituted by
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