Today for class we were asked to write a summary on Rome's Twelve Tables. Here is mine.
Overall, the Twelve Tables were a written law, created by the Plebeians, for all free citizens of Rome to see and know. In 451 B.C. a group of 10 officials started to write down Roman laws. The laws were first carved into wooden tablets(tables) and then onto bronze to be permanent. They were carved onto twelve tablets, hence the name The Twelve Tables, and place all over the Forum for people to see. These written laws established the thought that all free citizens were equally protected under the law. Although they were not a constitution, they were a collection of laws. The laws written down ranged from the widths of roads to the death penalty for sing a disrespectful song about another person. This written law code became the backbone for the future Roman law. They also became the precedent of written law and equality for citizens under the law.
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