... in the hands of all citizens under the rule of law. Assembly's made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to the people who are of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles' support. About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The ... ...

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