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[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ken Brown wrote:

> Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> > The reality is that ALL law in this country was 'reset' (to use modern
> > parlance) with the Declaration of Independence.
> 
> Really?

Yes.

> So murder, theft,  assault & battery were all unpunished by the
> local governments in the new States from Independence until they got
> around to passing new laws? Debts went unpaid without resort to the
> courts, contracts were unfilled subject to no sanction other than the
> opprobrium of neighbours? That the new United States were functional
> anarchies until new legislatures imposed new rules?

No, and you know that. Once the Declaration of Independence was issued and
prior the Constitution each local community and state issued their own
laws, laws that were not English law per se.

Simply saying 'the laws of the US are no made in England' is not the same
as saying there are no laws.

A bullshit strawman.

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