excerpts from the book...
Fetha Nagast
(The Laws of the Kings)
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“In Ethiopia, the Kings received their mission from Igziabiher/God and the allegiance
of the people because they have faith in the justice of their actions……Our history
shows that the Emperors and Kings decided cases and handed down judgment based
on precedents and the prevailing custom. They were assisted by the “Fetha Negast,” a
legal code complied by learned ecclesiastics. It was even a custom to bury a copy of
this code with the Rulers – an act symbolizing the fact that while dispensing justice in
their life-time they had not deviated from the provisions of the “Fetha Negast.”(The
Law of the Kings) – Girmawi Qedamawi Haile Selassie
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