Judicial System

For laws to exist, there must be a central authority (a government) to create them

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What were the first known written laws?

• The Twelve Tables

• Hammurabi's Code

• Ten Commandments

• Draconian Law

Laws were based on harsh principle of “an eye for an eye.”

• Ten Commandments

• The Twelve Tables

• English Bill of Rights

• Hammurabi's Code

Rules about ethics and worship and centered around religious beliefs

• English Bill of RIghts

• Draconian Law

• Ten Commandments

• Mayflower Compact

Right to trial by jury of peers and the right to a speedy trial comes from

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Hammurabi's Code

• Ten Commandments

Englishmen had certain inalienable civil and political rights

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• English Common law

• Draconian law

No cruel and unusual punishments or excessive bail and free speech in Parliament was also protected

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• English Common law

Body of law made up of all previous court decisions (precedence), rather than on legal code

• Hammurabi's Code

• Magna Carta

• Napoleonic law

• English Common law

Most important source of American law

• English Common law

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

Spanish settlers brought ideas of common law and individual rights to American colonies

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