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Essay Archive - The Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi
Although the boundaries of law affect our lives on a daily basis,
and our own society continually uses legal coercion as a means to modify
human behavior, the very notion of such binding human guidelines is
testament to the evolution of secular thought. The evolution of “legal
positivism,” which can be defined as tangible procedural law, created by
man, codified and conventional, has emerged with mankind's ability to
distinguish between secular and divine authority. To understand the
differences between secular and divine law, we must first realize the
different species of law that have bound man th....
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