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August 26, 2015

Title: Legal Influences On Our Founding Fathers
Topic: Birth of American Law

Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Part 1 of 3

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, published 1765-1769 by Oxford's Clarendon Press, had an immense influence on America's founders, being considered the definitive pre-Revolutionary source of common law by United States courts."The principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature".

Abraham Lincoln's life changed when a poor family heading west stopped by his little country store in Illinois and traded a barrel of miscellaneous items for food. At the bottom of the barrel, Lincoln found a copy of Blackstone's Commentary on English Law.

Besides, so what if a girl likes Buzz Light Year and a boy likes to pretend to mop and cook? That girl will just know how to defend herself if she gets picked on and that boy is going to make a great husband for a woman someday!

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