Rome's Twelve Tables

The purpose of the Roman public service was to help the people with their lives to keep them under control. Pipe systems for tidiness, water, and lack of illness. Drainage systems to keep rain from flooding. Public baths to keep clean all the time. Rental homes so people had shelter. Jobs back then were things like masons, carpenters, house-painters, blacksmiths, mechanics, and mosaic-makers were all used for money. The roads that they made were very good and were probably some of the worlds’ greatest roads back then. Water fountains were used from the water pipes that ran along the city and went into houses of the wealthy.

Romans protection of rights was enforced to help different people know what they can and can’t do. The patricians made the laws, owned the lands, and were the generals over the army. The Twelve Tables were laws that were posted to the public for all to see. They protected some basic rights of all Roman citizens regardless of their social class. The basic people were plebs and they could run for government and vote. A male Roman citizen enjoyed a wide range of privileges and

According to Roman tradition, the Law of the Twelve Tables was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Tables consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws. The Twelve Tables are sufficiently comprehensive that their substance has been described as a 'code', although modern scholars consider this characterization exaggerated.The Tables were a sequence of definitions of various private rights and procedures. They generally took for granted such things as the institutions of the family and various rituals for formal transactions. The provisions were often highly specific and diverse. The Twelve Tables of Roman society were said by the Romans to have come about as a result of the long social struggle between patricians and