Roman vs. U.S Ideas
of Citizenship Law and Justice
Citizenship
•Citizenship belonged to all free, abiding people
• Rights of the citizen are able to vote, go to court, and have the pir own property and write contracts.
•Male citizen have enjoyed all the rights
•Womens have limited rights
•Slaves were property with almost no rights (small chance of freedom)
•Freedmen were former slaves with limmited rights
The children of freedom and women would be born as full Roman citizens
What connections can you draw between the freedom children and the United States
Follow the Laws or punishment
•Focused on:
-Marriage
-Inheritance- what family gets when a member dies
-Contracts between people
Fit the crime committed
-Fines- pay money
-Beatings
-Banishment- have to leave Rome
-Slavery
-Executive if guilty of treason
Patricide- killing your father, was punished by being drowned in a river
Slaves were beaten, harder work, or often crucified