The following information is from;
"The Interaction of Law and Religion" by Harold Berman, London: SCM Press 1974, pgs 64-65
"... the key to the renewal of Law in the West from the 16th Century on was the Protestant concept of the power of the individual, by God's grace, to change Nature and to create new social relations through the exercise of his will. The Protestant concept of the individual became central to the development of the modern law of property and contract.
Nature became property. Economic relations became contract...
The property and contract rights so created were held sacred and inviolable, so long as they did not contravene conscience [informed by Scripture]... And so, the secularization of the state, in the restricted sense of the removal of ecclesiastical [catholic] controls from it, was accompanied by a spiritualization, and even a santifacation, of property and contract."
In later posts, I will provide proof that we are not a land of "Law and Order", nor were we to be allowed such simple talents as reading... it was the Protestants who brought about the teaching of the "Three 'R's", not the Catholic Church.
As for any such "law"... that was based on who you knew, and how much money you had. Sound familiar?
