Common law had nothing to do with religion...English Common Law, which his works were analyzing, is derived from Anglo-Saxon Common Law, which is very pagan (heathen to be more accurate...) in origin, not Christian.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:52 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Israel attacks and kills peace activists in international waters. 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:320733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
