The Role of Law in Protecting Community Engagement
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By the twenty second century BC, the traditional Sumerian ruler Ur-Nammu had formulated the first law code, which consisted of casuistic statements (“if … then …”). Around 1760 BC, King Hammurabi additional developed Babylonian law, by codifying and inscribing it in stone. Hammurabi placed several copies of his law code all through the kingdom of Babylon as stelae, for the entire public to see; this grew to become generally identified as the Codex Hammurabi. The most intact copy of these stelae was discovered in the nineteenth century by British Assyriologists, …
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