“One of the first jobs of the new Congress was the development of stated statutes to replace the “common law”, based on a written Constitution that replaced the unwritten, and infinitely mutable “constitution” of the United Kingdon.”
You mean that They wrote down English common law! No way! The English would do well to write down common law as well before Blair completely decimates it.
“the whole founding of the United States was the result of literally the violent rejection of the British system.”
What they rejected was the British telling them what to do as well as the creation of an American aristocracy, which is what the British planned to create. You should read David Hackett Fisher’s Albion’s Seed. It’s absolutely fascinating to discover that many different British cultures were essentially transplanted to the US. There is an astounding amount of cultural continuity despite the successive waves of immigration. Make no mistake. No other country but England could have produced a nation like ours. Why is it that the economic and cultural changes left behind by British colonialism have been so much more successful than French colonialism and Spanish colonialism?
“Not to mention the influence of people like Adam Smith, Locke, Hume, Burke, George Mason, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson — possibly the most talent-filled, and most revolutionary, fifty years in human history.
Hmmm…what do these people have in common? Could it be that they are all products of the English-speaking world?
I feel as if you seem to think culture is essentially disposable and can be changed at will like a pair of shoes. This is most decidedly not the case. I also believe that the US of 100 years ago is not that different from the US of today, despite the many social changes and material advances. What do I base this on? Reading a lot of history. If anything the social changes were a further affirmation and fulfillment of this nation’s long held beliefs. These changes were actually based on tradition. Traditions that do, in large part, go back to England.
