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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

History Found Guilty for Being Lame


History Found Guilty for Being Lame

            In my opinion, Ancient Greek law was more fair than today’s laws.  One cool thing about their legal system back in the day was that they could write the name of a politician on a piece of broken pottery, called ostracon, and if that politician got over 600 votes they would be banished from the city of Athens for 10 years.  Don’t you think that’s a fair system?  How many of our politicians do you think we would ban from Washington DC if we had this law?

            Another interesting fact about their legal system is that they had juries of 500 or more people to decide guilt or innocence.  And they didn’t have lawyers, they had to defend themselves.  The jury used a guilty jar and a not guilty jar and each person would put a metal disc into one of the two jars.  Most votes win!
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  1. AnonymousOctober 31, 2013 at 1:26 PM

    I really like the law where you can banish a politician for 10 years. That really is a democratic law and i think it's cool that democracy was thought up a long time ago. That's good that democracy was invented because it's really important for the development of the U.S. What would happen if democracy was not invented?

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