In the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, Moses leads the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt and into God's promised land. Explain how Winthrop's allusion to Moses in "City Upon a Hill" is appropriate.

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.