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The Bodong Bodong is the oldest traditional law still practiced in Kalinga Province North of the Philippines. Pagta is the by laws of the bodong. see also the complete by laws of the bodong at kalinga tambayan

FOREWORD Except for those which have been preserved in stone tablets like the Code of Hamurabi (about 2 B.C.), King of Babylon, the Abrahamic books and other Ante-Deluvian books of history which were all in cuneiform writing, all primitive laws of mankind have been handed down to the generations lex non scripta (unwritten laws). Even after the invention of the printing press, many laws of states were unwritten, the most notable of which is the English Constitution of Great Britain, although there are other British laws which have been written. Closer to us here in the Philippines are primitive laws, which, too, have been written. Although some were written like the Code of Kalantiaw, it is known that this law is written in brief, commandment form. Studies likewise show that in the Philippines, the Kalinga Pagta is one of the primitive laws preserved and practiced for Kalinga Pagta is the only primitive constitution which has been preserved since time immemorial, alive and practiced by the ethnic Kalinga themselves. For years, since the Kalinga Bodong (peace pact) system came into existence as a rule of law by ancient indigenous Kalingas, the Pagta was the code that governed their lives. It is not yet known whether or not the primitive Kalingas had their own form of writing. But present day studies on their culture does not seem to show any trace of writing form preserved, even in stone tables as in the Abrahamic and Babylonian ear of history The Kalinga Pagta (or literally translate, Law of the Bodong) of the Kalingas has been among human laws in this world which had remained lex non scripta since time immemorial. Historians during the Spanish period, apparently, had no encounter with the Kalinga Pagta because in those available writing on Filipino cultural heritage, no mention has been made on the indigenous laws of the Kalingas. It was only before the outbreak of World War II that American sociologist had made studies on the Kalingas. Rot F. Barton had recorded in his book on the Kalingas the bodong practice and had also touched on the Pagta of the Bodong.