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Too bad no one here worships through the Levitical priesthood of the BAR.
COMMON LAW. As distinguished from law created by the enactment of legislatures (STATUTORY LAW), the common law comprises the body of those principles and rules of action relating to the government and security of persons and property, which derive their authority solely from usages and customs of immemorial antiquity, or from the judgments and decrees of the courts recognizing, affirming, and enforcing such usages and customs; and, in this sense, particularly the ancient unwritten law of England.
As concerns its force and authority in the United States, the phrase designates that portion of the common law of England (including such acts of parliament as were applicable) which had been adopted and was in force here at the time of the Revolution. This, so far as it has not since been expressly abrogated, is recognized as an organic part of the jurisprudence of most of the Untied States.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Shoonra, tell me, during your training in law school, how much Common Law (as defined above) did you study? Did you study the works of Sir Edward Coke, Blackstone's Commentaries, or early American jurisprudence on Common Law? Do you care to explain to me why the 7th Amendment doesn't apply to me in most suits brought to court? Do you care to explain why the 2nd, 9th, and 10th Amendments, among others in whole or part, have not been incorporated into the rights, privileges, and immunities of a 14th Amendment citizen?
I also distinctly remember the Constitution and many state constitutions saying, in so many words, that political power rests ultimately with the people (with the 9th and 10th Amendments going to great lengths to protect "The People" from government). Would it not stand to reason that the unincorporated society of "We The People" are the sovereign power over the incorporated body politic known as government being that the government was created by and for "We The People"?
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