Aristotle once said “Law is order, and good law is good order”. This is why for many thousands of years different societies have made many laws to constrain the impulses and dangerous inclinations that people have. Laws have been made to help people navigate the world around them, but in the process of creating laws many laws that are controversial. Some laws can be good, some can be bad, some can just be interesting. But many laws have people questioning there importance. When comparing the laws of ancient Rome to todays laws it can be seen that some laws are very similar while other laws have died out as time has passed. As society has changed rules and regulations have changed with it.
In ancient Rome all of the laws were written onto tablets and placed into the center of the town. They were called the Twelve Tables. Since they were the center of the town they were physically accessible to all of the people. Although the comprehension of the laws were difficult because many of the Romans did not know how to read thus creating a problem with the metal accessibility the laws. Without this understanding you did not know many of the laws and how not to break them. This is similar to todays law because all laws are written in legal terminology so unless you know how to understand legal terminology you will have a hard time comprehending many of the finer points in the law. Roman laws also decimated people based on gender and social class and still in the world many places discriminated people based on gender, social class, sexual orientation, and religion. But some laws are different such as laws about any pluggers being thrown off cliffs, that would not be considered morally ethical today.
Rome had many good and sensible laws...
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...xamining the twelve tables and comparing them to todays laws you can see that while many of the laws are not relevant the ones that are still relevant create the best order and from this order we create a society that can run itself.
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