HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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people are innocent until proven guilty
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judges interpret laws
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accused people are not allowed to defend themselves
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people have rights no government can take away
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Detailed explanation-1: -There are 123 countries party to the Rome Statute. Some forty countries never signed the treaty, including China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I.
Detailed explanation-3: -Not surprisingly, then, Rome inspired many features of our own Constitution, including its checks and balances, bicameral legislature, term limits and age requirements. In some cases, the Founders copied terms straight out of the Roman constitution: words like senate, capitol and committee.
Detailed explanation-4: -Roman law fell under three categories: jus civile, jus gentium, and jus naturale.