[exmarine]

One more reason to vote for McClintock. Our founding fathers ALSO believed that the bible was the basis for Law. It comes from John Rutherford (Lex Rex) and William Blackstone, who both said that divine law is the basis for ALL law. Sadly, they have replaced Blacktone's commentaries in law schools and replaced them with Oliver W. Holmes (moral and legal relativist).

I would say that 95% of Americans are ignoramuses when it comes to knowledge of America's Christian roots and heritage and the faith of the founding fathers. They have been dumbed down and lied to by the secular humanist LIARS.

[CA Conservative]

Why is this a reason to vote FOR McClintock, if he rejects the idea of biblically-based laws? I am very disappointed in Tom.

[Jaded]

Samuel Rutherford. Then he was under "house arrest" for a number of years.

[INVAR]

And AMEN to THAT.

In fact, it bears repeating right here:

I would say that 95% of Americans are ignoramuses when it comes to knowledge of America's Christian roots and heritage and the faith of the founding fathers. They have been dumbed down and lied to by the secular humanist LIARS.

[CatoRenasci]

Where did you get the notion that the English common law is based on the Bible? Surely not from any study of the historical development of English common law. What has come to be the common law evolved from the pre-Christian conversion tribal laws of the various Germanic tribes that overran Britian and from the tribal laws of the various Celtic tribes which were conquered. Some Christian teachings may well have been interwoven during the period before the Norman Conquest, but it was hardly Biblically based. Before adopting such notions, read the seminal works in the area, such as Pollock & Maitland's The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I, or T. Plucknett's A Concise History of the Common Law.

The sense in which Blackstone meant that Divine law is the basis of all law was in a broad sense, not the narrow sense of some sort of theocracy. Have you actually read Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England? I have, and enjoyed it thoroughly, but I can tell you there is no hint of any love for theocracy in Blackstone. Indeed, he was no fan of Cromwell or the Puritans.

[MEGoody]

"One more reason to vote for McClintock."

Uh, except McClintock disagrees with his advisor's vision.