United States Capitol

===House Chamber===<!-- This section is linked from [[Hammurabi]] -->
[[File:2019 State of the Union (47006679041).jpg|thumb|President [[Donald Trump]] delivering the [[2019 State of the Union Address|2019 State of the Union address]] in the House chamber]]
[[File:OldSupremeCourt.jpg|thumb|The [[Old Supreme Court Chamber]] in 2007]]
[[File:US Senate Chamber c1873.jpg|thumb|the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] chamber, {{Circa|1873}}]]
The [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] Chamber has 448 permanent seats. Unlike senators, representatives do not have assigned seats.<ref>{{cite web |title=The House Chamber |url=http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/art_artifacts/virtual_tours/house_chamber/index.html |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905185132/http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/art_artifacts/virtual_tours/house_chamber/index.html |archive-date=September 5, 2009 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=December 31, 2022}}</ref> The chamber is large enough to accommodate members of all three branches of the federal government and invited guests for [[Joint session of the United States Congress|joint sessions]] of Congress such as the [[State of the Union]] speech and other events.

The Chamber is adorned with [[Relief|relief portraits]] of famous lawmakers and lawgivers throughout Western and Near Eastern history. The [[United States national motto]] "[[In God We Trust]]" is written over the tribune below the clock and above the United States flag. Of the twenty-three relief portraits, only Moses is sculpted from a full front view and is located across from the dais where the Speaker of the House ceremonially sits.

In order, clockwise around the chamber:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!No.
!Individual
!Years
!Country
!Legal work
|-
|1
|[[George Mason]]
|1725–1792
|[[United States]]
|[[Virginia Declaration of Rights]]
|-
|2
|[[Robert Joseph Pothier]]
|1699–1772
|[[Kingdom of France|France]]
|''Pandectae Justinianae in novum ordinem digestae''
|-
|3
|[[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]]
|1619–1683
|France
|
|-
|4
|[[Edward I of England|Edward I]]
|1239–1307
|[[Kingdom of England|England]]
|[[Statute of Westminster 1275]] and [[Statute of Westminster 1285]]
|-
|5
|[[Alfonso X of Castile|Alfonso X]]
|1221–1284
|[[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]]
|''Fuero Real'' and ''Siete Partidas''
|-
|6
|[[Pope Gregory IX]]
|data-sort-value="1145"|{{circa}} 1145–1241
|[[pope|Papacy]]
|''[[Decretales Gregorii IX|Decratales]]''
|-
|7
|[[Louis IX of France|Louis IX]]
|1214–1270
|France
|
|-
|8
|[[Justinian I]]
|data-sort-value="482"|{{circa}} 482–565
|[[Byzantine Empire]]
|{{Lang|la|[[Corpus Juris Civilis]]}}
|-
|9
|[[Tribonian]]
|data-sort-value="485"|{{circa}} 485–542
|[[Byzantine Empire]]
|''[[Codex Justinianus]]''
|-
|10
|[[Lycurgus of Sparta|Lycurgus]]
|data-sort-value="0"|{{fl.}} {{circa}} 820 BC
|[[Sparta]]
|[[Spartan Constitution]]
|-
|11
|[[Hammurabi]]
|data-sort-value="-1810"|{{circa}} 1810 – 1750 BC
|[[First Babylonian dynasty|Babylonian Empire]]
|[[Code of Hammurabi]]
|-
|12
|[[Moses]]
|data-sort-value="-1570"|{{circa}} 14th – 13th century BC
|[[Israelites|Tribes of Israel]]
|[[Law of Moses]]
|-
|13
|[[Solon]]
|data-sort-value="-638"|{{circa}} 638 – {{circa}} 558 BC
|[[Classical Athens|Athens]]
|[[Solonian Constitution]]
|-
|14
|[[Papinian]]
|142–212
|[[Roman Empire|Rome]]
|''Quaestiones'', ''Responsa'', ''Definitiones'', ''De adulteriis''
|-
|15
|[[Gaius (jurist)|Gaius]]
|data-sort-value="130"|{{fl.}} 130–180
|Rome
|Institutes
|-
|16
|[[Maimonides]]
|1135/38–1204
|[[Almoravid dynasty|Almoravid Empire]]
|[[Mishneh Torah]]
|-
|17
|[[Suleiman the Magnificent]]
|1494–1566
|[[Ottoman Empire]]
|[[Suleiman the Magnificent#Legal and political reforms|''Kanune Raya'']]
|-
|18
|[[Pope Innocent III]]
|1160/61–1216
|Papacy
|
|-
|19
|[[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]]
|data-sort-value="1208"|{{circa}} 1208–1265
|England
|[[Simon de Montfort's Parliament]]
|-
|20
|[[Hugo Grotius]]
|1583–1645
|[[Dutch Republic]]
|''[[Mare Liberum]]'', ''[[De jure belli ac pacis]]'' and others
|-
|21
|[[William Blackstone]]
|1723–1780
|[[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]
|''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]''
|-
|22
|[[Napoleon]]
|1769–1821
|[[First French Empire|France]]
|[[Napoleonic Code]]
|-
|23
|[[Thomas Jefferson]]
|1743–1826
|United States
|[[United States Declaration of Independence]] and [[Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom]]
|}

There is a quote by statesman [[Daniel Webster]] etched in the marble of the chamber, as stated: "Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."<ref name=danielwebster>{{cite book | last= Carrier | first= Thomas J. | title= The White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court: historic self-guided tours | publisher= Arcadia Publishing | location= Charleston, South Carolina | year= 2000 | series= Images of America | page= 84 | isbn= 0-7385-0557-9 | oclc= 44503337 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vU4stRA8OUQC&q=%22United+States+Capitol%22+%22Let+us+develop+the+resources+of+our+land%22&pg=PA84 | access-date= August 9, 2009 | archive-date= January 14, 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210114214624/https://books.google.com/books?id=vU4stRA8OUQC&q=%22United+States+Capitol%22+%22Let+us+develop+the+resources+of+our+land%22&pg=PA84 | url-status= live }}</ref>