THE LAW GAME Is it a law today?

1. NO  Ancient Mesopotamia: Hammurabi’s Code (1700 BCE)

2. YES  New Britain, CT: Law still on record today

3. YES  Mexico City, Mexico: Law passes in 1895 after a man whistled hello at a cyclist and then the cyclist lost control of his bike, and was killed after being struck by a horse.

4. NO  United States: Federal law passed in 1882, limited Chinese immigration on the west coast, was repealed in 1943.

5. NO  Ancient Roman Law, 450 BCE

6. NO  Cambodia: Current Cambodian Law, enacted because government thought use of water guns might incite a riot.

7. NO  Ancient Mesopotamia: Hammurabi’s Code

8. YES  United States: 26 th Amendment, passed 1971

9. NO  Ancient Roman Law

10. YES  Connecticut Law, Current

11. YES  United States: 2 nd Amendment, 1791

12. NO  Ancient Mesopotamia: Hammurabi’s Code

13. YES  New Haven, CT: Current law, established in 1700s, but no longer followed

14. NO  Ancient Mesopotamia: Hammurabi’s Code

15. YES  United States, Federal law passed in 2002

16. YES  Hartford, CT: current law

17. NO  United States: 18 th Amendment passed in 1919, repealed by the 21 st Amendment in 1933

18. YES  Ancient Greece: 1000 BCE

19. YES  Kansas, current law

20. NO  Ancient Roman Law

21. YES  United States: 4 th Amendment, 1791

22. NO  Ancient Egypt

23. YES AND NO  United States: 14 th Amendment, 1868  Ancient Egypt: 2000 BCE, only included “citizens”, not those considered to be slaves

24. NO  Ancient Mesopotamia: Hammurabi’s Code

25. YES  United States: 15 th Amendment, 1870