Has Humpty-Trumpty had a great fall, or a great bounce? That will depend on what the Great American Public thinks was at stake in his trial. It was ever thus in the democracy of ancient Athens.
In the absence of a state prosecution service, all legal cases in ancient Athens were brought by individuals.
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