"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was said to have been inspired by . Mark Twain's personal experience with gambling and placing bets a bartender's story about a gambler, overheard by Mark Twain the terrible conditions of the mining camps in the west the adventures of Mark Twain's brother, who struck it rich while mining

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.