On Jul 13, 2007, at 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/13/07 12:02:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Deuteronomy clearly describes a theocracy. The USA is clearly not a
theocracy and the founding fathers made certain that it wasn't.
Deuteronomy also describes the laws which people were to live by.
They included criminal and civil.
I would suggest that while you are correct in general, the real basis
for our gov't is the 16th century fascination with universal laws of
nature. These were best exemplified by John Selden, in De Jure
Naturali et Gentium juxta Disciplinam Ebraerum (Natural Law and Civil
Law of the Hebrews), where he tried to establish such a universal law
based on (at that time) the only known universal laws, Noachide Law.
Selden's rendition and expansion of Noachide Law became one of the
basis for a universalized Freemasonry, which later found it's way
into the thinking of the founding fathers.
