Twelve Tables
Published on Jan 30, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TWELVE TABLES
LAWS ABOVE THE LAWGIVERS
PLEBEIANS VS. PATRICIANS
UNCHECKED AND UNBALANCED!
Remember, ROME wanted to borrow the glory of Greece. To do this, they sent a group of men to Athens to study the law.
SOLON'S CONSTITUTION
CHOSEN AS A MODEL FOR A WRITTEN ROMAN CONSTITUTION
Livy writes:
In the year 302 AUC, A BOARD OF TEN MEN WAS GIVEN ABSOLUTE POWER IN ROME FOR ONE YEAR AND THEY WERE TO CREATE A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION.
DECEMVIRS:
THE NEW LAWGIVERS OF ROME
TWELVE TABLES:
- Based on Roman customs
- Easy enough for common people to understand
- Schoolchildren made to memorize them
- Written laws would make it easy to apply the same laws to all citizens.
- A written law would restore the people's confidence in their leaders' commitment to protecting liberty.
TWELVE TABLES:
BASIS FOR SOME OF OUR OWN FOUNDING PRINCIPLES!
8 KINDS OF PUNISHMENT:
- Fines
- Fetters
- Flogging
- Retaliation in kind
8 PUNISHMENTS, CONT.:
- Civil disgrace
- Banishment
- Slavery
- Death
PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING YOUR PARENT:
DEATH BY SEWING YOU INTO A SACK AND THROWING YOU INTO THE RIVER!
THE END OF THE DECEMVIRS:
HOW DO YOU THINK IT ENDED?
