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The Twelve Tables
The earliest written statement of Roman law, produced by two boards of ten men and set out publicly at the demand of the plebeians.
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The bottom layer of the inheritance Justinian's commission was reading through, and the essay's earliest example of its own argument: the plebeians refused to be governed by rules only the priests could recite, and forced them onto tablets in the Forum where anyone could read them.
The essay places Bentham's demand two millennia later in the same line.
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- For the Love of Law
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- For the Love of Law
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