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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I'm not at all sure that's true. Our concept of political rights and freedoms are largely derived from Greek ideas by way of Rome, true. But the idea of basic "things" people were entitled to goes back quite a bit further than that. What are all those achingly dull books next to Exodus if not long lists of rights (and responsibilities)? Mind you, what we would consider [i]desirable[/i] rights are a relatively new invention. Hammurabi gave all his citizens the right, when accused, to essentially go jump in a river. If he drowned, he was guilty, but if he lived he got his accusers house. But it's still, more or less, the right to a trial. And its better than similar trials by water that cropped up in Europe not too many centuries ago. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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