Common Law is not dead, but Common Law is trumped by every other form of law.
True enough .But our Courts ignore both history and Reason when they ignore the supreme law. Our Founders seemed to know and understand that human law if valid cannot contradict the laws dictated by God ,Himself.These laws are two the Law of Nature ,and the Divine Law ( reflected in Scripture and discovered by Reason).These are binding over all the earth.At all times. (with sorrow for my summation of both Sir Wm.Blackstone who sold more copies of his Commentaries here than in England. And to James Wilson to reflected Blackstone. IMO the one Code our Courts violate at risk— for Divine Law (Scripture is Not trumped by any valid law made by man.I long for the day when our Courts and our legislature honored the solemn oath and fundamental law.