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To: Danae

Sigh....

Google “reception statutes.”. Tell me what they say.


122 posted on 01/28/2012 5:44:18 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: Publius Valerius
I don't use Google. I use Bing. But I googled this for you. The top three links are Wikipedia, a resource I do NOT consider cite-able.

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Reception Statutes appear to be named "reception statutes" That is not the same words as "Common Law".

I told you before, the constitution draws on MANY sources for it's inspiration, and to a greater or lesser degree, those sources were not english common law. English common law has as its ultimate authority GOD, Jesus Christ, from whom the English Monarchy derives its POWER to rule. The Founders rejected that concept, and enshrined it in the 1st Amendment.

Do we trace back many laws to English Common Law? Yes. Does English Common Law bind us? No. There is NO ruling authority which says English Common Law is the Law of the United States and you know it. Does out system bear a descendent relationship to it, I would argue yes. Does that Bind the United States TO it, or under it? No. We do NOT obey English Common Law. We obey the laws that the Constitution enshrines and those which descend from it, we do not obey English Common Law. Instead, the founders created a new system of laws which was original in all of history.


126 posted on 01/28/2012 12:09:12 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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