WOMEN AS AN ISSUE OF ROMAN LAW OF CITIZENSHIP
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To ensure public order, laws are enacted to organize the interaction among all types of people. Among all known laws of ancient times, Roman law is assumed to be based on individual rights. However, the needs and experiences of people grew and developed as they started understanding the social state, and individual rights and freedoms became rather limited in Roman law compared to today's states. This study reveals that women's rights in Rome were more closely related to civil laws such as marriage, divorce, and inheritance, not the rights provided by citizenship. One of the main reasons for this is that the laws were enacted by empowered men to benefit their fellow men, so they were a source of sex discrimination.