Abstract
Abstract
After the restoration of the democracy in 403/2
bce
, the Athenians made a distinction between decrees (
psephismata
) and laws (
nomoi
). Proposals for new laws were enacted by the
nomothetai
, who were a special session of the Assembly summoned for this purpose. If the proposal was contrary to any existing law, the existing law had to be indicted and annulled in court before the proposal could be enacted. The legal procedure used in this case was the “public procedure against proposing an inappropriate law” (
graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai
).