Tom Jefferson was mostly referring to white males.
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Answer: The Twelve Tables (aka Law of the Twelve Tables) was a set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome in 451 and 450 BC. They were the beginning of a new approach to laws where they would be passed by government and written down so that all citizens might be treated equally before them.
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It was constantly attacked by foreign countries and this made it get weaker