Hammurabi had his scribes create the world's first written, comprehensive law code. Hammurabi claimed that these laws were sanctioned by the gods, and had copies carved on markers to be placed in key locations throughout his cities. This code unified his empire by creating standards and solidified King Hammurabi’s authority over his empire. King Hammurabi made sure that first the Code of Hammurabi acclaimed that the Hammurabi King was the only source of authority and power. The
* -The Code of Hammurabi was one of several sets of laws in the Ancient Near East. Some laws: * If a Seignior (Lord or Master) accused another Seignior, putting a ban upon him, but he cannot prove it, his accuser shall be put to death. * If anyone brings an accusation against a man, and the accused goes to the river and leaps into the river, if he sinks in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river proves that the accused is not guilty, and he escapes unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser. * If anyone brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if a capital offense is charged, be put to death.
Table 12 is named Supplement II, This law creates equal treatment by law, whatever was ordained last shall be binding. This means that whatever was decreed last is now the current law. Between 1795 and 1750 B.C. The Code of Hammurabi was inscribed into stone. The Code of Hammurabi was a set code of rules that were enforced by King Hammurabi, the king of Babylon.
Bill of right is a natural right of liberty and freedom which also puts limit on government’s power. Second, difference is In Hammurabi’s Law Code; there is a specific punishment for each unique crime. For example, According to Hammurabi’s Law Code, the punishment for falsely accusing a man of any felony is death and more others punishments like “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. And he also sorted his code into groups such as family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade, and business. This was the first time in history that any laws had been categorized into various sections.
Historical Laws and Security King Hammurabi created the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi. This code has 282 clauses that control such areas as obligations, professions, rights, commerce, slavery, marriage, theft, and debt. The principles mentioned are in the form of the law of retaliation and the punishments are viewed as barbaric. Draco’s Laws were Greece’s first written laws. They are named after a citizen who wrote Athens code of law.
The Magna Carta explains the role of the government and what you can expect from them. King John at the time was taking peoples liberties and the people wanted their liberties back. Magna Carta (Influence) The Magna Carta has many elements of the document written in the Constitution of the United States, such as free religion, trail by jury and the right to be an individual within the limits of the law. Magna Carta is the oldest document to make up the Constitution of the United States. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk Mayflower Compact (Summary) The first written law of the new land was written by 41 members of the Mayflower.
History/Mr. Bedard Exam 2 October 12, 2010 Constitutional Interpretation Constitutional interpretation, or constitution construction, is the term most often used by our founding fathers. It is the process by which meanings are assigned to words in the constitution to enable legal decisions to be made that are justified by it (Lecture). The two main classifications of constitutional interpretation are known as strict construction and loose construction. Strict construction is the literal interpretation of the words of the constitution as they are written, while as loose construction is the contextual interpretation of the words of the constitution (Notes).
Law 196 “If a man has put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.” The second was the extreme harshness of the penalties, which included drowning, burning, and cutting off of body parts. Some of the laws had to do with slaves. Slaves were so valuable that stealing a slave or harboring a runaway was punishable by death. Law fifteen states that “If anyone take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death.” In laws 16 and 17 “If anyone receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house shall be put to death, If anyone find runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him to shekels of silver.” Owners were compensated if a slave was injured or died. Law 199 states that “If he put out the eye of a man’s slave, or break the bone of a man’s slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.” Even doctors were responsible for the injury or death of a slave.
The Quakers, who settled Pennsylvania, believed that the criminal codes were both inhumane and inefficient in that judges often did not follow the criminal codes because they did not want to inflict more severe punishments on relatively minor offenders. Under the leadership of Penn, the Quakers replaced the current criminal code with a new one. The new criminal code included the abolition of capital punishment for all crimes other than homicide, the substitution of imprisonment at hard labor for bloody corporal punishments, the provisions of free food and lodging to inmates, and the replacement of the stocks and pillory with houses of detention. When Penn died in 1718 the Quaker code was repealed. Dr. Benjamin Rush, the leader of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of the Public Prisons, revived the Quaker code in the late 1700s.
Punishments varied according to a person’s social group. For example commoners were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason whereas nobles were beheaded. Men and women were also treated differently women would be burnt at stake and strangled before that is they murdered their