At 11:16 PM 3/21/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
That the one place 'common law' is mentioned in the Constitution it is in direct conflict with contemporanious English common law?
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
It acknowledges the existence of common law. Now that this has been cleared up, your contention is that the US is not bound by, and does not follow ANY of the precepts of English common law, is that correct? Proceeding on the assumption of the affirmative (dangerous, but the electrons are already paid for), where is the American common law that replaced the now rejected English common law, that A7 refers to? Reese