The Influence of Greco-Roman Civilization on the U.S. Government: The Eagle Roman or American Civil Law
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Slide1Greco-Roman Influence onthe US Government
Slide2The Eagle
Slide3Roman or American?• Civil law is thus distinguished from the law of nations. Every community governed by laws and customs uses partly its own law, partly laws common to all mankind. The law which a people makes for its own government belongs exclusively to that state and is called the civil law, as being the law of the particular state...
Slide4Amendment X• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people .
Slide5Roman or American?• the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Slide6Roman Law of Nations• It is not the Roman custom to condemn any man before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has an opportunity to defend himself against the charge. • No one is to be convicted on suspicion alone, it is better for the crime of a guilty person to be left unpunished than for an innocent to be condemned.
Slide7Roman or American?• No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen.
Slide8Roman or American?• Slavery is an institution of the law of nations, by which one man is made the property of another, contrary to natural right.
Slide9Architecture
Slide10The Parthenon
Slide11US Supreme Court
Slide12US Department of Treasury
Slide13The White House
Slide14NYSE
Slide15Philadelphia Museum of Art
Slide16The Lincoln Memorial
Slide17America’s Athena?
Slide18Another God-like American
Slide19The Pantheon
Slide20Jefferson Memorial
Slide21The Rotunda at UVA
Slide22The Capitol Building
Slide23Arch of Constantine
Slide24Washington Square Park
Slide25The Roman Coliseum
Slide27Interior of the Coliseum
Slide28Los Angeles Coliseum