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   Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 02:01:51 JST Daniel Lakeland

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   My assumption based on light historical reading is that societies functioned well without codified laws for millennia, and even millennia after the invention of states much of law wasn't codified, it was essentially negotiated ad hoc. I mean Magna Carta was 1215 right?

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     Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 02:01:52 JST Daniel Lakeland

     So in another thread there was a discussion of how the law came about and it raised a bunch of questions about history and anthropology for me. As a matter of anthropology and history, which came first, codified laws, or states? #anarchy #anthropology