Written laws and constitutional orders of the classical Mediterranean city states: the codes of Draco, Solon and the Cretan and Greek colonial lawgivers, the Spartan constitution and its founding rhetra, the constitution of Carthage and the Roman Twelve Tables. A code belongs here when its cited article describes a law code or constitution of a Greek, Roman or Carthaginian city. It excludes the later imperial compilations of Roman law, which sit in the Roman and Late Antique subcategory.
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Constitution of Carthage (Wikipedia)
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The constitution of Carthage is the political regime of the city in Punic times.
Gortyn Code (Wikipedia)
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The Gortyn code (also called the Great Code) was a legal code that was the codification of the civil law of the ancient Greek city-state of Gortyn in southern Crete.
Great Rhetra (Wikipedia)
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In one sense, it was the Spartan Constitution, believed to have been formulated and established by the quasi-legendary lawgiver, Lycurgus.
Wikipedia: Solonian constitution
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The Solonian constitution was created by Solon in the early 6th century BC.
Spartan Constitution (Wikipedia)
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The Spartan Constitution is the government and laws of the classical Greek city-state of Sparta.
Twelve Tables (Wikipedia)
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The Twelve Tables (Latin: Lex Duodecim Tabularum) was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law.
Charondas (Wikipedia)
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His laws, originally written in verse, were adopted by the other Chalcidic colonies in Sicily and Italy.
Draco (legislator) (Wikipedia)
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He replaced the system of oral law and blood feud by the Draconian constitution, a written code to be enforced only by a court of law.
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