Interesting, there's a great video on the governing system of the Iroquois Confederacy, which is surprisingly intricate.
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
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#32People seem to be getting into a tizzy about what 'ours' refers to here. It refers to common and civil law, the two dominant legal traditions in the world. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#/media/File:Map_of_... Both arose in Europe, and have been promulgated throughout the world. These other legal traditions are often highlighted and discussed to show what assumptions the current dominant systems rely u…
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#33This is an old draft. A more recent draft is here: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo...
Oh good. Someone told him that “gypsy” is considered a slur by a lot of Romani.
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#34David Friedman is Milton Friedman's son. He teaches law but has never taken a formal law class. He also likes to study the economic systems of MMORPGs. His son Patri came up with the idea of Seasteading. Interesting character.
Among many other things he has written a cookbook with medieval recipes. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/To_Milk_an_Almond.pdf
And an economics book that actually made sense to me: Hidden Order.
I liked his way of defending free trade. „In America there are two ways to make cars. We build them and we grow them. The people in Detroit use steel and build them. And the people in Iowa put corn and wheat on big ships, sail them eastward, and sone time later they come back with cars.“
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#35Found an error, but in case he doesn't fix it, from: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy... He says: "The biblical rules, which set twelve and a half as the age of female adulthood" The Bible is very clear that a male or female become adults at age 20. See Exodus 12, 38; Numbers 11,14; 1 Chronicles 31:17, Ezra 3:8 and there are probably some more scriptures that show it.
As with most bible passages, earlier texts may or may not line up... The twelve-and-a-half rule is from the Babylonian Talmud: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU-nBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=one...
So the Talmud is not the Bible though.
The Bible, the Old Testament and what the Jews consider Holy Text is the Torah. The Talmud is a body of works of various rabbis; the Talmud mostly the two books of Gemarah and the Mishnah and should not carry the same weight as the Torah. So if one were to consider the Bible (Torah) only, the legal age of an adult appears to be 20. What the Jews did or made up on their own afterwards would be of their own tradition and in some cases in contradiction to the Bible.
The Bible - and Jewish tradition many times do not line up. Even in New Testament times there were issues with this - as Jesus had a beef with the Pharisees because they had all these other laws and rules one had to obey that were not part of the Torah.