Doug Holland@lemmy.worldM to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago"If you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses" —Jeff Landry, Louisiana's wingnut Governor, requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down15
arrow-up182arrow-down1external-link"If you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses" —Jeff Landry, Louisiana's wingnut Governor, requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools.www.nytimes.comDoug Holland@lemmy.worldM to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@kbin.runcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up32·5 months agoSo I got curious: Law Timeline: https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/law/ List of ancient legal codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_legal_codes In this list is the Law of Moses / Torah (10th to 6th century BC) And it’s definitely not the earliest code of law. Try again Landry.
So I got curious:
Law Timeline: https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/law/
List of ancient legal codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_legal_codes
In this list is the Law of Moses / Torah (10th to 6th century BC)
And it’s definitely not the earliest code of law.
Try again Landry.