Legal Code

Legal Code - Rome/US

Twelve Tables

• publicly displayed
• gave rights to plebeians, not just aristocrats
• only protected free-born male citizens (not women)

Bill of Rights
- first ten amendments to the constitution

1. free speech/press/religion
2. bear arms
3. no quartering
4. no search and seizure
5.  no self-incrimination
6. right to fair trial
7. jury trials
8. no cruel or unusual punishment
9. right to privacy and rights are assumed
10. states have power where fed doesn't