2006-07-04 08:42:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It is a collection of legal principles, in five sections: the Civil Code, the code of civil procedure, the code of criminal procedure and penal law, the penal code, and the commercial code. The Codes were based on common sense rather than any legal theory. According to the Cambridge Modern History, "the Codes preserve the essential conquests of the revolutionary spirit-civil equality, religious toleration, the emancipation of land, public trial, the jury of judgment. . . . In a clear and compact shape, they presented to Europe the main rules which should govern a civilised society."
Why ya wanna' know?
2006-07-04 08:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mexico was a french colony under france and gained its indepenence on may 5th cinco de mayo
2006-07-04 08:46:57 · answer #2 · answered by PETE A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are guilty untill proven innocent.
2006-07-04 08:46:29 · answer #3 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋