Moses and the Ten Commandments sit atop the U.S. Supreme Court building.
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The Anglo-American tradition of common law can be traced back to the reign of King Alfred the Great (reigned 871-899), who in turn based his codes upon those found in the Books of Moses.
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If you truly desire to secure and defend your sovereign rights to freedom and liberty, your first
responsibility is to bring yourself back under the jurisdiction and operation of what's known as the common law. The common law has been around in various forms and guises for many thousands of years (at least),1 and can loosely be regarded as the "natural" law that exists between man and Nature antecedent to the institution of the artificial legal fiction known as the State. The Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution can all be viewed as expressions of the common law, in the sense that each of these documents recognizes the natural rights of man,2 gives foremost consideration to these natural rights and then proceeds to draw very strict limits beyond which the (artificial) State may not encroach.
However, the oldest extant and by far the most comprehensive statement on common law to which we have access is, of course, the Bible itself.
The Bible is unique amongst the world's religious writings in that alongside the usual parables, proverbs, prophecies and covenants one might expect to find, there are contained within its pages (at least) 759 distinct legal codes, statutes and judgments of common law3 intended to guide the human race toward its ultimate destiny with freedom, wealth and prosperity. These legal rules and regulations admit both a spiritual and a secular interpretation, and so it is that the Bible can and does become the backbone upon which our "secular" system of Western common law is built. For instance, the Anglo-American tradition of common law can be traced directly back to the time of King Alfred the Great of England (reigned 871-899), who in turn codified and based his laws upon those found in the Books of Moses. Much the same can be said, respectively, for most of the other nations of Europe, and for many other countries around the world.
So for these and other similar reasons we may, from time to time, quote from Scripture in support of some of our views - more especially when arguing a point concerning the common law.
Our purpose in doing so is not to color our newsletter with the prejudices of any particular religious persuasion, Christian, Hebraic or otherwise, but rather to cite specific precepts or maxims of the common law (i.e., the law of wealth, property and increase), deferring when necessary to the Bible as the "First Cause" of the common law in the Western tradition.
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