lb >>7530427 for the anon interested in trains and the connectedness from a lawfag
This will really bake your strudel than anon. The History of Codification starts at 1870, right around the time of the passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment. The key Amendment being the Fourteenth Amendment, which incorporates the Bill of Rights to the States through a long series of SCOTUS cases over decades. The Codification of Law made that possible by changing interpretation. If you read this document, it talks about Babylon and other nations that used this process of codification throughout history. It provides the way for centralizing power and 'interpreting the law' in the manner customary by progressive judges.