Administration of justice

Private prosecutors the chief agency for bringing offenders to account (274)
But the distinction from the private and public suits are clearly marked, 276
The filing of suits, 279
The preliminary examination of the magistrate, 279
Trial procedure
The presiding magistrate to have greater control of the proceedings, 280
The inquisitorial examination of charges and evidence to be made at some stage of
every the case, 281
The party oath, the challenge to the oath, and the challenge to the torture
prohibited, 283
Witnesses, 285
The suit for false testimony, 286
Open voting, 288
Discretion of judges in fixing penalties, 289
A judges decision to render under oath, 290
The responsibility of the state in the execution of judgements, 291
Devices for discouraging excessive litigation, 292
General estimate of Platos procedural law, 295



D I V I S I O N O F R E P O R T S
CHAPTER X [Grp 3 & 4]

[GRP 3]
The political mean, 521; a mixture of two extremes, 523; viz. monarchy and democracy,
525. The monarchical element in Plato's constitution, 526. Inadequacy of Aristotle's
interpretation of it as a mixture of oligarchy and democracy, 528. Plato's economy a mean
between wealth and poverty, 530.

[A]
The middle way in education and in religion, 532.
The mixture of Dorian and Ionian, 533.
Other evidences of mixture, 535.

[B]
The doctrine of mixture in the Philebus as the secret of excellence and stability, 535; in
politics the proper mixture a balance between authority and liberty, 537. The special
doctrine: the mixed constitution a balance of powers within the executive, 538.

[C]
Confusion of the special with the general doctrine in later thought, 540.

CHAPTER XII [Grp 4 only]

[Step]
Philosophy present in the Laws and intended to be important in Plato's city, 573.
Philosophy and law interdependent, exercising a joint sovereignty in philosophically
formulated law, 576.
Comparison of this conception with the teaching of the Republic, law not excluded from
Plato's earlier work, as is sometimes said, 577.

[Jecko]
The philosopher-guardians to be "guardians of the laws," 582; hence their rule implies the
rule of law, 582.
But the Republic lacks legal devices for holding rulers responsible, and an orderly process
for amending the law, 583. The antithesis between science and law in the Politicus, 584.

[Jansen]
But law is necessary in any form of rule, however scientific, 586.
The distinction between positive law and right law implied, 587; science antithetical to
much positive law, but not to right law, 588. The rule of philosophy implies the presence
of law, not its abolition, 589.