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Their Christianity wasn't "the same" as others. My understanding though is that they did respect the wisdom of the Bible and other thinkers, such as the Puritans, but their system was not a direct copy of the text of the Bible and included other lines of thinking which had developed over the centuries.America was founded by religious men, followers of the Judeo-Christian faith.
The Bible and other older legal system did play a role in the development of Common Law, which is what the states are governed by. (Common Law is effectively based off of the Golden Rule, or respect for people, their families, their property, and so forth - which interestingly was a principle which the Ten Commandants seemed to include - nevertheless, the governmental systems of America were not a direct copy of the Bible or the Ten Commandments, but were much more complicated than that).
Non-sequitur.What is the attitude toward religion in government school?
The governmental system of the Biblical Old Testament was more or less an authoritarian system ruled by religious elites or kings, and didn't contain a Constitution or Bill of Rights. Something more akin to a monarchy, given it was an Iron Age government after all.Here's a hint.
"The biblical view holds that wisdom begins with acknowledging God. The secular view is that is that God is unnecessary for wisdom, and the left-wing view is that God is destructive to wisdom. But if you want to know which view is more accurate, look at the most godless and Bible-less institution in our society: the universities.
They are, without competition, the most foolish institutions in our society.
For nearly all of American history, the Bible was the most important book in America. It is no longer. This is a moral and intellectual catastrophe."
Why the Left Mocks the Bible
So no, if you're comparing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the legal system of Iron Age Israel, they wouldn't be the same. (Given that you're a woman, I'm unsure if you would have been allowed to participate in government, unless you were born into a royal family, like that of the Biblical Queen Ester).
"The Bible and other older legal system did play a role in the development of Common Law, which is what the states are governed by."
Gads.....so much of what you think you know is confused and just wrong.
"In 528 Tribonian was selected, with John the Cappodocian, to prepare the new imperial legal code, the Codex Juris Civilis, or the Code of Justinian.. Rome had a legal system dating back to the ‘Twelve Tables,’ written in 451 BCE, based on the 6th century BCE work of Solon of Athens. Rome, unlike Greece, treated the interpretation of law (statutes and precedents) as a profession.
In 530 a second commission led by Tribonian had the objective of revising the way lawyers were educated. Fifteen centuries later, the Codex still exerts its influence on Europe and is known as the Civil Law tradition. The Inquisition, Renaissance, the Napoleonic Code, and the Holocaust are all, in part, an outgrowth of the lex regia: “The will of the prince has the force of law.”( Quod principi placuit, legis haget vigorem) Today, European law gives preeminence to legislatures, the institution that drafted the statute prevails.
In Anglo-American Common Law tradition, the institution that interprets and adjudicates the statute has the final word. Due to the absence of a jury, and the deference to whomever writes the laws, Civil Law tradition is friendlier to tyrannical regimes than the Common Law tradition. Under Justinians’ code the emperor is named nomos empsychos, “law incarnate.”
"Justinian's Flea," Rosen