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1 " Does the Convocation make the laws?" Erskyll asked.Hozhet was perplexed. "Make laws, Lord Proconsul? Oh, no. We have laws."There were planets, here and there through the Empire, where an attitude like that would have been distinctly beneficial; planets with elective parliaments, every member of which felt himself obligated to get as many laws enacted during his term of office as possible. "
― H. Beam Piper , A Slave Is A Slave
2 " It should belong to everybody. Let us call it the Commonwealth. That means something everybody owns in common.""Something everybody owns, nobody owns," Mykhyl Eschkhaffar objected."Oh, no, Mykhyl; it will belong to everybody," Khreggor Chmidd told him earnestly. "But somebody will have to take care of it for everybody. That," he added complacently, "will be you and me and the rest of us here.""I believe," Yakoop Zhannar said, almost smiling, "that this freedom is going to be a wonderful thing. For us. "
