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Decemviri

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A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed c. 455 B.C. to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce.

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450 B.C.

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Rome

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They were the beginning of a new approach to laws where they would be passed by government and written down so that all citizens might be treated equally before them.

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"The concept that during the periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians."

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"Whatever the People has last ordained shall be held as binding by law."

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Q-Why was it advantageous for Roman commoners to have these laws public displayed

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Q-Why was it advantageous for Roman commoners to have these laws public displayed

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A-The commoners insisted that there laws be displayed so that they knew what they can and cannot do.

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A multitude of the world's law structures are directly derived from the ancient Roman legal codes. These, whether economic, judicial, or political, owe their modern existence to Roman attempts, however imperfect, to create an empire based on law as much as force. The United States, the United Nations, and the European Union-- all implicitly reflect the influence of Roman universalism.

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What common principles can you find in these laws. 

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What common principles can you find in these laws. 

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the common principle is rule of law because it shows that these laws were made for the rights of the roman citizens and the tables and tablets to keep the government from abusing power.

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The tables were supposedly written in response to the plebeians' protest that the patrician judges were able to discriminate against them with impunity because the principles governing legal disputes were known only orally.

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The Twelve Tables allegedly were written by 10 commissioners (decemvirs) at the insistence of the plebians, who felt their legal rights were hampered by the fact that court judgments were rendered according to unwritten custom preserved only within a small group of learned patracians.