Monday, March 24, 2008

Christianity as Part of Our Common Law

The Arkansas Supreme Court, from a 1905 decision, was quoted by Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer in a lecture, entitled, The United States a Christian Nation. The opinion they rendered in the case of Shover v. The State, 10 English, 263, included: This system of religion (Christianity) is recognized as constituting a part and parcel of the common law.

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