ARCH 2401 Chapter : Chapter 3
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Development of law: codes of conduct have been around for centuries: Justice and law differ and change according to societal norms, cultural shifts and technology. (right 2 vote was only for white men b/c u had to own property ) "equal justice under the law"" this statement always changes. Code of hammurabi 1792 bce (oldest legal colds) has examples of property, laws. If son hits dad, cut off his hand, if u burn someone"s house, ur gonna get. Mosaic code of israelites (ten commandments, written on tablets) Roman twelve tables (tablets put on display for the people, romans created this burned to, death for stealing code of law binding partion which councils enforced: barbaric punishments and strange trials were common in early world history. People accused of crime often faced trial by ordeal (testing them) . Order by water drowning meant u were innocent (drowning people, stoneing them, hanging, cutting hand off) Age of enlightenment: new ways of thinking.
