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Three additional laws prohibiting the selling of rum, prostitution, and gambling were later added to the code, and proclaimed together as the first penal laws of the kingdom on December 8th 1827. The enforcement of these penal laws, however, resided within the multi-tiered feudal structure of various mesne lords who ruled over the people. The "rule of law" had not yet been laid as the cornerstone of constitutional governance and enforcement of the law was not sufficient across the realm, but it was the beginning of modernity and the move from a federal to a unitary form of governance.