Read the following primary source to answer the question below it.
“TABLE IX. Concerning Public Law
Law I. No privileges or statutes shall be enacted in favor of private persons to the injury of others contrary to the law common to all citizens, and which individuals, no matter of what ranks have a right to make use of.
Law II. The same rights shall be conferred upon, and the same laws shall be considered to have been enacted for, all the people residing in and beyond Latium, that have been enacted for good and steadfast Roman citizens
Law III. When a judge, or an arbiter appointed to hear a case, accepts money or other gifts for the purpose of influencing his decision, he shall suffer the penalty of death.”
The excerpt above from the “Twelve Tables” (Law Code of Rome) illustrates which of the following about society in Republican Rome?