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Hammurabi's Code v. The Bill of Rights
Hammurabi's Code v. The Bill of Rights
Hammurabi's Code v. The Bill of Rights
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insure peace, justice, and a false sense of equality amongst the people. And
these documents are part of what make the civilizations. Without them, there
actually one of the first documents of its kind, and is one of the foundations
stellar example is the Bill of Rights. And because Hammurabi’s Law Code has
Hammurabi’s Law Code have in common, one realizes that they are a far less
amount than the amount of differences. The Bill of Rights and Hammurabi’s
Law Code are both, obviously, a set of laws. This means that they both have
decrees that must be followed. Also, the purpose of both of these laws is to
protect and bring justice to the people to whom the rules shall apply.
Hammurabi boasted of his purpose for his Law Code by saying, “…to
promote the welfare of the people, I, Hammurabi, the devout, god-fearing
prince, cause justice to prevail in the land by destroying the wicked and the
evil, that the strong might not oppress the weak.” One person even defined
that the Bill of Rights was created to “set the limits on what the government
two documents, many forget to consider the artists behind the masterpieces.
societies. Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, and the first king of the
Mesopotamia’s land, and expanded the empire. James Madison was the
fourth president of the United States of America. He was also a leader in the
First United States Congress. Not only were Hammurabi and Madison both
politicians, but they were very well acquainted with law. Hammurabi was a
Hammurabi’s Law Code. First of all, the Bill of Rights and Hammurabi’s Law
Code were written in two different time periods; the Bill of Rights was written
in the late 1780s, A.D., while Hammurabi’s Law code was created
somewhere near 3500, B.C. Because of the vast difference in the years, it is
accurate to say that the societies that these documents belonged to were
in the Neolithic Period, but the Bill of Rights belonged to the government
during the Revolutionary War. Also, the Bill of Rights does not specifically
state the punishment of wrong actions; it simply tells American citizens what
they have the ‘right’ to do, as the name of the document implies (the Bill of
punishment for falsely accusing a man of any felony is death. In this law, it
specifically states the punishment that Hammurabi thought is fitting for the
crime.
So, all in all, Hammurabi’s Law Code and the Bill of Rights have many
differences, like the likeness of the persona from which they were created
and the actual content of the laws themselves and the images they present
in the mind of the readers. But despite their differences, they both are icon
figures in today’s society, and most of their rules, or more modern versions