| you and every
other citizen a share in every good that we had to give, we further proclaim
and give the right to every Athenian, that if he does not like us when he
has come of age and has seen the ways of the city, and made our acquaintance,
he may go where he pleases and take his goods with him; and none of us laws
will forbid him or interfere with him. Any of you
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go where he likes, and take his goods with him.
But he who has experience of the manner in which we order justice and administer
the state, and still remains, has entered into an implied contract that
he will do as we command him. And he who disobeys us is, as we maintain,
thrice wrong: first, because in disobeying us he is disobeying his parents;
secondly, because we are the authors of his education; thirdly, because
he has made an agreement with us that he will duly obey our commands; and
he neither obeys them nor convinces us that our commands are wrong; and
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