... of what later came to be known as human rights. Among these rights were the rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and be free from excessive taxes, establishing the right of widows who owned property to choose not to remarry, and establishing principles of due process and equality before the law that also contained provisions forbidding bribery and ... traditions also proclaimed the idea of human rights by calling on rulers to rule justly and compassionately, and also by establishing limits on their power over the lives, activities, and property of their citizens. ("A ...

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