[MarthaNOStewart]

IF YOU UNDERSTOOD THE BASIS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW IN AMERICA YOU WOULD KNOW JUSTICE MOORE IS RIGHT! Common Law from England was basis of our first laws handed down from Duke of York in form of such documents as "Original Criminal Code of 1676", those laws were established by judges in England who used scripture from Ten Commandments. The colonists in Pennsylvania were ordered to use those laws. This is HISTORICAL FACT, and should never be removed from us. The most commonly used criminal justice textbook (CRIMINAL JUSTICE, SEVENTH EDITION BY JAMES A. INCIARDI) ON PAGE 43 teaches the history of COMMON LAW. To remove this from courthouses and textbooks is same as erasing Leanardo Di Vinci from the Mona Lisa...and perpetuating a LIE...Don't let them do it! This not about seperation of Church and State, it is about rewriting history!

[tortoise]

Talk about rewriting history...

English Common Law predates Christianity in the British isles. The oldest written records came from the Romans and Christian missionaries, who themselves noted that the Common Law was already ancient when they got to the isles. English Common Law originates deep in pre-history, and while it has been influenced by Christianity in later years, it is by no means established as a Christian tradition.