I 82 ARISTO TLE 'S POLITICS.
laws of a state grow and strengthen and attain consistency by
the decisions of courts.
That Aristotle was not ignorant of the connexion between the
judicial and political institutions of a people is shown by his
remark that ' Solon established the democracy when he consti-
tuted the dicasteries out of the whole people ' (ii. 12. § 2).