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Smith, Adam, 72
Social contract, 71-72
Social institutions, in Enlightenment thought, 73-74
Socrates, 16
Solon, 112, 114, 120, 154
Solvitur ambulando
("it is solved by going"), 18
Sophists, Greek, 71
Sparta, lack of free speech in, 113
Speech, freedom of: classical antecedents for, 111-19;
not conceived of as inherent right at Athens, 112;
dilemma of, in liberal democracy, 113;
in English Bill of Rights, 85;
invented in ancient Athens, 112;
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