To: Robert_Paulson2
No...
...Mine is the use of the 10 Commandments as the foundation of law.
YOURS is the allegation that this constitutes the adoption of Christianity as common law.
It's not even Jefferson's claim. His traces back the establishment of the Anglican Church as the State Religion.
Yours for better scholarship.
192 posted on
08/26/2003 5:22:01 AM PDT by
Maelstrom
(To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
To: Maelstrom
no, yours WAS that the common law was based on the 10 commandments and/or the bible. it's not, never was.
a known falsehood.
193 posted on
08/26/2003 11:21:04 AM PDT by
Robert_Paulson2
(We need a new war... the *--WAR on GLUTTONY--* to save America...)
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