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Subject: Re: Re: Selective enforcement ... (what socialist thinking?)
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 11:49:38 EDT
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Have you ever wondered where the term 'rights' came from?  This
concept is one of 'rights' and 'wrongs', and owes its origins
to the anglo/saxon tradition that was finally embodied in the
Common Law of England.  By what value system were rights and
wrongs to be measured?  What value system embodies the concepts
of 'truth', 'justice', 'oaths', 'honor', 'respect', 'morality'
and not bearing false witness and many other words and concepts
in our legal language?

Every court that I know in the United States still administers
an oath that ends, "... and nothing but the truth, so help me
God."

Perhaps it is my use of God that offends you.  Thomas Jefferson,
in basing the foundation for a new People of separate and equal
station, used the word Creator.  The concept is the same in my
mind.  I agree, though, it does seem that God is no longer with
our judicial system.  Or is it that our judicial system is no
longer with God?

I am willing to move this discussion to net.religion if you feel
it is illegal.

				Yours in God and Freedom,

				    Warren N. Shadwick