God himself gave Moses the Ten Commandments. These "rules" are not meant to make our lives difficult or boring. They are meant to keep us on the right path in life and people are actually happier when following the commandments.
Mayflower compact
George Hancock
The first important set of written rules was scribed by Alexander Cartwright, of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, and published on September 20, 1845
he has these rules because the first time he met his first wife she told him that she had a set of rules to live by and now he does too
The Declaration of Independence
Articles of confederation
Hammurabi's code of laws was the first know comprehensive set of written laws. The code was instituted by the messopotamian king Hammurabi.
Articles of confederation
No, Hammurabi actually improved it and added lots of rules to it... But it wasn't the first.
Baptists do not have any official set of rules. One of the main aspects of the Baptist faith is that each church is autonomous. The church's rules and guidelines can be set by the pastor, deacons, and/or church body as a whole. This decision to allow autonomy was one of the biggest reasons for the initial split from Catholicism, which early Baptists and Anabaptists believed was not using the Bible to lead the church.
Given set of rules.
Yes it is. It is practiced in the 6 livable continents. Their religious leader is Jesus Christ whose vicar on earth is the pope. Catholicism follows a set of rules called the Ten Commandments. They wrote the Bible. Catholicism is the original and only Christian Church founded by Our Blessed Lord; Other faiths such as Protestantism, and Orthodox among others, were founded as breakaways from it. Also over 1 billion people in the world practice Catholicism, making it the second largest religion, after Islam.