This will therefore be an appropriate place to speak of judges and their functions.

The supreme tribunal will be that on which the litigants agree; and let there be two other tribunals, one for public and the other for private causes.

The high court of appeal shall be composed as follows:--All the officers of state shall meet on the last day but one of the year in some temple, and choose for a judge the best man out of every magistracy: and those who are elected, after they have undergone a scrutiny, shall be judges of appeal.

They shall give their decisions openly, in the presence of the magistrates who have elected them; and the public may attend.

If anybody charges one of them with having intentionally decided wrong, he shall lay his accusation before the guardians of the law, and if the judge be found guilty he shall pay damages to the extent of half the injury, unless the guardians of the law deem that he deserves a severer punishment, in which case the judges shall assess the penalty.
As the whole people are injured by offences against the state, they should share in the trial of them.