The earliest human legal systems were almost completely forms of lex talionis. that means "the law of revenge." the lex talionis is a law of equal and direct revenge. it is what it says in hebrew scriptures: "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." the best example of this law was hammurabi's code. hammurabi was a babylonian king. he created a series of 282 laws. those laws were based entirely on the principle of revenge. under this code, a person found guilty of murder was immediately stoned to death or drowned in a river. a person who assaulted another person was to have his or her hands cut off.
which statement is the best summary of this paragraph?
a. hammurabi was a babylonian king. he created 282 laws based on revenge. one law said a person that beat up another person had to have his or her hands cut off.
b. hebrew scriptures say, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." this means the punishment should fit the crime. it is law based on revenge.
c. if a person was guilty of murder, hammurabi's code said that he or she had to be killed by stoning or drowning. hammurabi was the king of babylon many years ago.
d. lex talionis is the idea of law based on revenge. hammurabi's code is an example of this. the code was made up of 282 laws based on the idea of revenge.

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .