alt.education

On Mar 27, 11:04 am, Conspiracy of Doves wrote:
> On Mar 27, 7:32 am, buckeye wrote:
>
> > Antonin Scalia v. Thomas Jefferson http://www.misterthorne.org/ESSAYS/scalia_v_jefferson.htm
>
> > The author of The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
> > wouldn't agree that our laws and our government are based on the Ten
> > Commandments. Thomas Jefferson criticized the notion that Christianity
> > had any part in it. He argued that the common law of England - the
> > basis of the laws of the colonies - couldn't have been influenced by
> > Christianity, much less the Ten Commandments. His argument? The common
> > law existed in England for 200 years before Christianity arrived
> > there. His conclusion? "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part
> > of the common law."
>
> I did some googling on the history of english common law but had a
> hard time finding out when it started. Christianity was there at least
> as far back as 597ad when Augustine arrived there.

It was indeed there however it was not the predominant religion of the
Angle, Saxon and Jutish invaders until at least a century after the
invasion of Britannia. The legal framework of the tribes had been well
established when they were still in Jutland and Schleswig-Holstein and
had not yet had any significant contact with the Christian faith due
to their relative isolation.

Rich Goranson
Amherst, NY, USA
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