Western Civilization I / Unit 18 WC1 1722 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Join: Law From Hammurabi to Westphalia
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The idea
Hammurabi's code punished by class; the Twelve Tables made Roman law public; Justinian's Corpus purged it into the form Europe revived at Bologna; Magna Carta bound a king; Westphalia bound princes to a treaty. Law moved from a king's claim to a rule above kings.
In practice
Entries 0012, 0505, 0803, 1024, 1616.
Where people slip
The primary layer reads three of these. The exam quotes them.
Your place on the trail
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