70:12.3 The [[king]] was the executor of the [[mores]], the [[original]] or unwritten law. Later he enforced the [[legislative]] enactments, the crystallization of [[public]] [[opinion]]. A popular assembly as an [[expression]] of [[public]] [[opinion]], though slow in appearing, marked a great [[social]] advance. | 70:12.3 The [[king]] was the executor of the [[mores]], the [[original]] or unwritten law. Later he enforced the [[legislative]] enactments, the crystallization of [[public]] [[opinion]]. A popular assembly as an [[expression]] of [[public]] [[opinion]], though slow in appearing, marked a great [[social]] advance. |