Question

What are the sources of the laws of the United States? Question options: the beliefs and practices of exclusively Christian cultures over the last 2000 years the ideas, traditions, and laws of previous generations and historically influential societies the written codes of those nations that are the political allies of the United States the rules and instructions laid out in the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament

Answer 1

While, undoubtedly, the sources for the laws of the United States owe some debt to Christian religious texts of the past, the founding fathers looked to the philosophies of the Enlightenment, which sought to throw off the shackles of the dark ages brought about by the Christian zealotry of the past, to write the nations first set of laws. As such, the laws of the United States draw from the laws of previous generations and historically influential societies.