Roman vs. U.S ideas
Citizenship,law,and justice
Citezenship
Citizenship belonged to all the free law abiding people
Rights
Able to vote
To hold office
Own property
Hold office
Own property
Write contracts
Go to court
Not all Men citezens enjoyed all of the rights
Women had limeted right no voting
Slaves have no rights
Freedmen escaped slavery with little rights
Not everyone was equal
The child of a freedmen and women would be born as full citizens
In rome if you are free your children are going to be free.In the united states in you are an illegal imigrant and your child is born here your child is a citizen of the united states but you are not.
Laws
Follow the laws
Marriage
Inhearitance what family gets when a member dies
Contracts between people
Laws were written in the tweleve tables for romans to refer to when they were unsure of something
Natural laws were given to every citezen rights
Connected tolife,liberty,and persuit of happiness
Were do we see that in you the united states
We see it in the declarasion of independance
Justice
Judges made court decisions from trials and evdence we learned that from rome.
Punishments
Fines-pay money
Beatings
Banishment-have to leave rome
Slavery
Execution if guilty of treason
Patricide-killing of your father,was punished by drowning in a river
Slaves were beaten,harder work,or often crucified.