From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 02:17:35 +0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Subject: Re: Abandonment of legal precedence...
In-Reply-To: <199712291809.MAA02745@einstein.ssz.com>
Message-ID: <199712291817.NAA21347@users.invweb.net>
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In <199712291809.MAA02745@einstein.ssz.com>, on 12/29/97 
   at 12:09 PM, Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> said:

>The *entire* point of the forming of the United States over 200 years ago
>was the specific intent to break with precedence, in particular *English*
>precedence, and find a new way.

Well that may sound nice and give you all kinds of warm fuzzies the fact
of the matter is English Common Law is the basis of the Judicial System in
America as it was before the break with England.

While the revolution changed the political form of government it did
little to change the judical system. Murder was still murder, theift was
still theift, contracts were still valid before and after the war.

>[personaly, every time I hear somebody mention English commen law as a
>justification to deny the Constitution I want to slap the holy shit out
>of them]

FL is not that far of a drive Jim, you are more than welcome to come on
down and give it your best shot. :)

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