Low Information Voter on Nostr: Theodosius and Theodosius II set up no bureaucracy to enforce those laws, so they ...

Theodosius and Theodosius II set up no bureaucracy to enforce those laws, so they were "demonstrative" only.

The Ottomans didn't until the very end of their rule, relying on the "millet" system of community self-rule. Two massacres a thousand km apart is strikingly peaceful compared to Europe at that time, and proof the system worked,

Decentralised governance is assuredly not an Anglo-Protestant thing, it has deep roots in Middle Eastern pastoralist cultures.

To be honest, that shows a shocking lack of familiarity with the region's history.

Israel's state-centered land ownership via QANGOs is a very colonial-era imposition.