--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/13/07 9:32:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on > the Christian religion." > > > > I never said it was founded on the Christian religion. It was founded on > Christian principles which are common to the Christian/Judaic culture. I see > very little, if any, Islamic, Hindu,Buddhist influence in our laws and > government. Yet our laws and morays are saturated with Biblical values.
No. They are not. ---Forty-one law professors and legal historians weighed in on a lawsuit challenging Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's display of the Ten Commandments in the state Judicial Building in Montgomery. The scholars were brought together by Steven K. Green, former legal director at Americans United and now law professor at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon. The friend-of-the-court brief, filed April 28, musters ample historical evidence to debunk claims by Moore's attorneys that the judge has the right to display the Ten Commandments because they are the foundation of American law. Nothing in the nation's legal history supports Moore's view, the legal scholars and historians say. "Aside from a failed attempt in the seventeenth century to establish a biblically based legal system in the Puritan colonies, American law is generally viewed as having secular origins," asserts the brief. The brief notes that "various documents and texts" figured in the development of American law, among them English common and statutory law, Roman law, the civil law of continental Europe and private international law. American law, they point out, was also influenced by the writings of William Blackstone, John Locke, Adam Smith and others as well as the Magna Carta, the Federalist Papers and other sources. "Each of these documents had a far greater influence on America's laws than the Ten Commandments," asserts the brief. "Indeed, the legal and historical record does not include significant and meaningful references to the Ten Commandments, the Pentateuch or to biblical law generally." The brief notes that the U.S. Constitution lacks even "a perfunctory or formalistic reference to God" and says during the debate over ratification of that document, delegates discussed Roman law, British law and the laws of other European nations but "as can best be determined, no delegate ever mentioned the Ten Commandments or the Bible." [...] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200306/ai_n9283024
