[farmer18th]

So that should restore the moral order of which you speak and then people like me are happy. What do you say?

Hardly. That's bulletin board law, not eternal law, the sort of thing that would please a Bolshevik or a student revolutionary--so long as the posted laws matched the current consensus. Do you want to trust your children, your spouse, your property to the current consensus or do you want the code that has sustained WESTERN CIVILIIZATOIN FOR THE LAST 2000 YEARS?

[Viva Le Dissention]

The English Common Law has been around for quite some time, at least since the 12th Century or so, and as far as I know, larceny has also been a crime at common law, so I don't really think that I'd call it subject to the current whim or fancy of public opinion.

But when it comes to a Court, I'll go with common law over religious law, thanks.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Do you want to trust your children, your spouse, your property to the current consensus or do you want the code that has sustained WESTERN CIVILIIZATOIN FOR THE LAST 2000 YEARS?

Which would that be? Roman?