In Plato's Crito, Socrates has been sentenced to death by the court of Athens and is being held until his execution. The Crito is the recorded account of the conversation between Socrates ... that the laws could have been set up by an evil dictator or an unjust government. For example, in the case of the Dread Scott Decision in U.S. history, it stated unjustly that African American slaves were considered property of their white owners. While today we know this to be unjust, but according to premise two, because of its validity as an ... ...

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