Excellent comments. Somewhere I have some quotes from Blackwell stating that law is founded in Biblical law, and without that foundation there is no foundation.
That doesn't sound like the kind of thing Mr. Blackwell would write about, since he does the catty "Worst Dressed List" of celebrities every year.
Could you possibly have made an interesting Freudian slip in saying Blackwell, instead of referring to Blackstone, the author of the classic "Commentaries" on the common law? :)