[psholtz]

In our Constitution, at Article I, Section 10, it's written that no State shall pass any legislation impairing the obligation of contract.

In other words, contract law trumps legislated law.

I'm wondering whether there is a Biblical precedent for this?

I've heard it argued that the common law, as practiced/understood in the US/UK, derives from the common instituted by King Alfred the Great of England c. 800AD, and he in turn drew the common law from the Law of Moses in the Bible.

Sooo... understanding the common law (Biblically) to be the Mosaic law, are there examples in the Bible where contracts between two persons/sovereigns ever trumps the Mosaic Law?

Or... is Mosaic Law itself to be understood as a contract between man and God, and a contract which takes precedence over all other contracts man may enter into?