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baldguy

(36,649 posts)
17. US law is based upon "foreign" law. Always has been.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 10:45 AM
Mar 2012

In the US Supreme Court building South Wall Frieze includes figures of lawgivers from the ancient world and includes Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Augustus. The North Wall Frieze shows lawgivers from the Middle Ages on and includes representations of Justinian, Muhammad, Charlemagne, John of England, Louis IX of France, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon. Only one of those 18 people is an American, and he's almost near the end of the sequence.

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