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Code of Hammurabi

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The Code of Hammurabi was a comprehensive set of laws, considered by many scholars to be the oldest laws established; they were handed down four thousand years ago by King Hammurabi of Babylon.

Although the Code of Hammurabi was essentially humanitarian in its intent and orientation, it contained the "eye for an eye" theory of punishment, which is a barbarian application of the concept of making the punishment fit the crime. The Code of Hammurabi recognized such modern concepts as that of corporate personality.
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Seven of them are un-American and the other three were plagiarized from the Code of Hammurabi, penned 3,000 years earlier.
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There is a similar religious backing to another set of famous laws, those of the code of Hammurabi.
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These are bits from the Declaration of Independence, the Code of Hammurabi or Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address.
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