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At one point during the speech Socrates imagines the laws of Athens making, the Laws say, "For, after having brought you into the world, nurtured and educated you, and given you and every other citizen a share in every good we had to give, we further give the right to every Athenian, if he does not like us when he has come of age and has seen the ways of the city, he may go wherever else he pleases and take his goods with him." This argument implies that _________ .

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This argument implies that there was freewill offered to all citizens of Athens.

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In Anthens, the city was filled with scholars and great warriors. It happens to be one of the most well known city in the past civilization upon which one of the greatest philosopher( Socrates ) lived in.

In the speech delieved by Socrates on the Athenian law, he was arguing that, the city promotes freewill among its citizens to do what the feel was right once they have come of certian age. The argument believes that, it is not just to restrict the people who wishes not to identify with the Athenian state.

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