Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ✨ Thom…

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Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772, p.140
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