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To: MarthaNOStewart
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.

59 posted on 08/21/2003 8:12:40 PM PDT by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: tortoise
Primary Source Documents
60 posted on 08/21/2003 8:15:46 PM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: tortoise
HELLO IN THERE! What are you saying? Christianity? That has nothing to do with Ten Commandments, they are old testament law for Jews given to Moses on Mount while Jews were in Wilderness. Christ had not even come to earth at that time, and Christianity did not exist yet....WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE AT...DEFINATELY NOT IN RIGHT PLACE IN HISTORY.
The Common Law in England during the 1600's was the basis of the law for New World Colonies by 1676, and all that other "intellectial spew" does not change that historical fact! What Moore (his being a christian is irrevelant, he could be atheist for all I care) said is that THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BASIS FOR OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM,,,,THE MAN IS RIGHT! period.
68 posted on 08/22/2003 4:48:29 AM PDT by MarthaNOStewart
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