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    Essay Ass. King Urukagina

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    King Urukagina implemented sweeping reforms to protect citizens from abuse and ensure fairness. He banned officials from seizing private property and ended many taxes. He also dismissed corrupt priests, limited religious fees, and cancelled debt-slavery. Urukagina recorded all reforms to prevent the weak from being dominated by the powerful in the future. His "Liberty Cones" established some of the first basic legal rights to protect citizens.

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    King Urukagina implemented sweeping reforms to protect citizens from abuse and ensure fairness. He banned officials from seizing private property and ended many taxes. He also dismissed corrupt priests, limited religious fees, and cancelled debt-slavery. Urukagina recorded all reforms to prevent the weak from being dominated by the powerful in the future. His "Liberty Cones" established some of the first basic legal rights to protect citizens.

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    King Urukagina implemented sweeping reforms to protect citizens from abuse and ensure fairness. He banned officials from seizing private property and ended many taxes. He also dismissed corrupt priests, limited religious fees, and cancelled debt-slavery. Urukagina recorded all reforms to prevent the weak from being dominated by the powerful in the future. His "Liberty Cones" established some of the first basic legal rights to protect citizens.

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    Why do you think King Urukagina was concerned about making the

    laws more fair and prohibiting the rich and the clerics from taking
    advantage of the poor? Why do you think King Hammurabi thought it
    was necessary to protect the weak from the strong and enlighten
    the land? Why do you think that the concept of writing down the
    laws had to keep being discovered?

    Urukagina implemented a sweeping set of laws to guarantee the rights of


    property owners, reformed the civil administration, and instituted moral and social
    reforms. Urukagina banned both civil and ecclesiastical authorities from seizing land
    and goods for payment, eliminated most of the state tax collectors, and ended state
    involvement in matters such as divorce proceedings and perfume making. He even
    returned land and other property his predecessors had seized from the temple. He saw
    that reforms were enacted to eliminate the abuse of the judicial process to extract
    money from

    Ensi Urukagina set about making some changes. He dismissed many corrupt
    officials, the chief boatmen, head herdsmen and fishery inspectors who had seized
    private property. He confiscated the estates of the ensi and placed them under the
    jurisdiction of the gods Urukagina removed many court officials, including supervisors
    who controlled the grain tax. He dismissed the priests who had taken bribes and the
    temple administrators who had shared tax revenues with the ensi. Then Urukagina set
    limits on the amount that the priests could collect for their religious rituals and their fees
    for burying the dead. He cancelled debt-slavery and declared a general amnesty for the
    citizens of Lagash, even for criminals, even for thieves and murderers (“their prison he
    cleared out”). Last but not least, he provided charity for the poor and the elderly. In all of
    these actions Urukagina claimed he was directed by the gods. All of these reforms were
    carefully recorded on Urukagina’s cones and tablets to ensure that “the orphan or
    widow to the powerful will not be subjugated”. Urukagina's “Liberty Cones”
    are the world’s first documented effort to establish the basic legal rights of citizens.

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