Do Now

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Do Now

• Get out your Do Now Log and brainstorm.
• Brainstorm List as many things as you can to
  answer this question What does America have in
  place to maintain order and peace?

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Constitution Day 2006
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• In matters of Power, let no more be heard of
  confidence in men, but bind him down from
  mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
• Thomas Jefferson

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• The Constitution is not an instrument for the
  government to restrain its people, it is an
  instrument for the people to restrain the
  government lest it come to dominate our lives
  and interests.
• Patrick Henry

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New Unit Mesopotamia and Egypt
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Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.)

• Conquered several city-states in Mesopotamia to
  become King.
• Improved canals tax system.
• Changed religion so all people in kingdom
  worshipped God of Babylon.
• His main legacy
• HAMMURABIS CODE
• Discovered in 1901

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Hammurabis Code

• Created laws to govern all parts of life.
• Two major ideas
• 1. Innocent until proven guilty.
• 2. Guilty can be punished using eye for an
  eye idea.

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• Hammurabi ruled for 40 years known as Golden
  Age of Babylon
• Became major trade center.
• After his death, Mesopotamia went back to
  city-states.

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Lets Look at some laws!
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Law 1

• If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon
  him, but he can not prove it, then he that
  ensnared him shall be put to death.
• In your own words, what does this mean?

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Law 2

•  If any one bring an accusation against a man,
  and the accused go to the river and leap into the
  river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall
  take possession of his house. But if the river
  prove that the accused is not guilty, and he
  escape unhurt, then he who had brought the
  accusation shall be put to death, while he who
  leaped into the river shall take possession of
  the house that had belonged to his accuser.
• In your own words, what does this mean?

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Law 3

•  If any one bring an accusation of any crime
  before the elders, and does not prove what he has
  charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense
  charged, be put to death.
• In your own words, what does this mean?

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Law 4

• If he satisfy the elders to impose a fine of
  grain or money, he shall receive the fine that
  the action produces.
• In your own words, what does this mean?

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Law 5

• If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and
  present his judgment in writing if later error
  shall appear in his decision, and it be through
  his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the
  fine set by him in the case, and he shall be
  publicly removed from the judge's bench, and
  never again shall he sit there to render
  judgment.
• In your own words, what does this mean?

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Law 6

• If any one steal the property of a temple or of
  the court, he shall be put to death, and also the
  one who receives the stolen thing from him shall
  be put to death.
• In your own words, what does this mean?

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Law 22

• If any one is committing a robbery and is caught,
  then he shall be put to death.

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Law 23

• If the robber is not caught, then shall he who
  was robbed claim under oath the amount of his
  loss then shall the community, and . . . on
  whose ground and territory and in whose domain it
  was compensate him for the goods stolen.
• What does this sound like?

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Laws 196-199

• If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician,
  his eye shall be knocked out.
• If he has broken the limb of a patrician, his
  limb shall be broken.
• If he has knocked out the eye of a plebian, or
  broken the limb or a patricians servant, he
  shall pay one mina of silver.
• If he has knocked out the eye of a patricians
  servant, or broken the limb of a patricians
  servant, he shall pay half his value.

• After reading this, what do you think the
  difference is in a patrician and a plebian and a
  patricians servant?
• Who is more valuable in society?

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Reflection

• What does Hammurabis Code tell us about Ancient
  Society? (3-4 sentences)