turbo594 said:The only thing that will continue to eat away at our civil liberties are PC'ers and activist judges who make up law from the bench and rely on FORIEGN law and world ideas such as that wonderful Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Oh and she just happened to have run the ACLU. Flame away and forgive any spelling errors. Useful idiots is an applicable phrase here.
Our laws come from the Constitution which is here and now. The Constitution was based on many documents...then. The Constitution is the final word in this country now. Using the current "enlightened sensibilities" of the French or Germans, or Belgians or the Spanish based on their current systems(which flucuate from century to century based on immoral societies) is ludacris. The Constitution is clear about everything and if it's not there is an amendment process, and states rights; not the disaster that is Europe's enlightenment right now. Our Constitution will not flap about like Chirac's mouth.Chuck S said:Ummm...many of our laws ARE based on ideas from "FOREIGN" laws...including the Magna Carte and old European laws. To get the spirit of those laws, it makes sense to look at their origins and how similar laws are applied throughout the world. Law is not something "new" that magically appeared in 1776.