From: "Geo" 

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:441546fc$1{at}w3....

> > Right on! I mean it's not like the founding fathers looked at things
going
> > on elsewhere and used that to help form their opinions on how things
should
> > be done here. Judges shouldn't be allowed to think, our laws are clear,
just
> > apply them and shut the hell up right?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
> Ummm... they were *from* somewhere else. They were breaking away from
> "elsewhere". You inherited all the UK common law etc up till
> 1776.....Politically you are Cromwell's bastards...Thomas Paine & his
> "Rights of Man" was written by an englishman for englishmen
(a bit like
> your "liberty bell" was cast for englishmen by
englishmen)...& then
> there's the 1689 Bill of rights...etc.etc.etc.
>
> But hey ignorance is bliss & Gary's such a happy chappy.

Try not to slip in that puddle of sarcasm Adam.. I understand where they
looked for examples (both good and bad examples).

Geo.

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