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Shake · 10-25-2002, 09:08 AM

According to an expert testifying in a case in Montgomery, AL, the buy-bull has little to do with US law. From <a href="http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1035364786248780.xml" target="_blank">this article</a>, we have Paul Finkelman, a law professor from the U of Tulsa, whose testimony included:

Quote:

"The Ten Commandments represent a tiny slice of the heritage of American law," said Finkelman. "No respected scholar of legal history would assert that the Ten Commandments have played a dominant or major role, or even a very significant role, in the development of American law as a whole."

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"Our constitutional order owes far more to the great English lawyers of the 17th century like Sir Edward Coke and John Selden, and the writings of Henry de Bracton, as well as to the ideas of John Locke, Adam Smith and other Enlightenment philosophers, than to the Ten Commandments or any biblical source,"

It's nice to see the real truth getting out there.

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