Blackstone's common law was strongly based on religion. I'm not sure how you jumped to the opposite conclusion from you clips.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Blackstone wrote about common law, which is based on the very pagan > Anglo-Saxon law brought to England by Vikings and other Germanic > invaders/visitors (some were actually invited). > > From the Wiki article on him: " Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 14 > February 1780) was an English judge, jurist and professor who produced the > historical and analytic treatise on the common law entitled Commentaries on > the Laws of England, first published in four volumes over 17651769. It had > an extraordinary success, reportedly bringing the author £14,000, and still > remains an important source on classical views of the common law and its > principles." > > > And > > " The four volumes of the Commentaries, first published between 1765 and > 1769 in Oxford and first issued in an American edition in 1771, won instant > recognition for their able synthesis of the often bewildering doctrines that > made up the common law and for their elegant writing style. Leading American > attorneys who first learned their law by reading Blackstone include > Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson at first admired > Blackstone's learning and eloquence, but later denounced his treatise as > "honeyed Mansfieldism," a reference to the great conservative English jurist > Lord Mansfield." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320725 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
