Sparta made it illegal to write down the laws, on the basis that just laws could be memorized by everyone. https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/718474922767491072 …
@chrylis Classical counter: Rome's plebeians insisted on having laws written down so that a public record of law was available to them
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@aspasia_project Explicit in the Spartan model was a limit on the size of the law. Rome had no such.
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