Legislative commission
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
legislative commission · commission · original legislative commission
in the texts
Against Leptines
Athenian body involved in reviewing or enacting laws.
Not to be content, then, with a bare assertion, but to show you the actual law to which I refer, please take and read the law constituting the original legislative commission.
but ever since certain statesmen rose to power and, as I am informed, contrived to get into their own hands the right to initiate legislation at any time and in any way they wished, there are so many contradictory statutes that for a long time you have had to appoint a commission to sort out the contradictory ones;
If they hang back and refuse to take this step, then consider, men of Athens, whether it is to your credit that you should be known to have taken away from your benefactors what not one of these men ventures to take from his personal enemy, and that you should pass a law to rob collectively of their rewards men who have served you well and whom no one dreams of indicting, when the handful of unwor …
Third Olynthiac
The body Demosthenes proposes for removing obstructive laws.
Appoint a legislative commission.