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    What country or culture was the first known to have a formal justice system with courts, trials, juries and so forth?

    Question #75742. Asked by neon000. (Feb 11 07 9:15 PM)


    Bruce007

    		Greece or the Greeks.

    Feb 11 07, 9:59 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		"Judges and officers you should place at all your gates, and let them give the people just judgement..."
    That was one of the commandments regarding a proper justice system in Deuteronomy - in fact it is the beginning for a layout of a government with the separation of powers and a judiciary branch independent of the monarchy. So ancient Israel had judges and trials. The sanhedrin, which came much later, was a whole system of government by a forum of judges in effect.

    Feb 12 07, 2:42 AM
    neon000

    		There were cultures older than Judaism, so I'll have to go with either Greece or the Babylonians.

    Feb 12 07, 9:30 AM
    Baloo55th

    		I can't track Babylonian juries, but the Greeks did have them. But the Egyptians will have beaten them to it as they had a justice system involving juries back in about 2000BCE, whereas the Greeks were about 1500 years later. http://www.abota.org/education/archive/mythsandfacts.asp
    and http://www.texaslre.org/jurygame_intro.html

    Feb 12 07, 1:04 PM

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