40+ Ancient Greek Judicial System
Background. Ancient greek law is a branch of comparative jurisprudence relating to the laws and legal institutions of ancient greece. Greek law, legal systems of the ancient greeks, of which the best known is the law of athens.
According to the greek judicial system every court is competent to judge the conformity or not of a legal provision with the constitution.
You may have heard that ancient greece invented democracy, but democracy was only one type of government employed by the greeks, and when it first athens originally had kings, but gradually, by the 5th century b.c., it developed a system that required active, ongoing participation of the citizens. The court system in ancient greece was taken seriously. According to the greek judicial system every court is competent to judge the conformity or not of a legal provision with the constitution. There was shown the influence of judicial speakers on perception of law orders sense.