What IS Common Law?

Many people do not know what “common law” truly IS.

Common law is not something static, some set of laws that never changes.

Common law is constantly changing!

Common law is judge-made law.

It is the sum total of all unreversed appellate court decisions … as opposed to legislative enactments or executive orders.

Every unreversed appellate court decision, including decisions rendered today by our highest courts, creates new common law.

Misunderstanding about what common law IS causes unnecessary confusion, frustration, and failed attempts to get justice.

Unreversed appellate court decisions (common law) give every one of you the power you need to control judges.

Some people think there are “common law courts”, i.e., courts exclusively dealing with common law when, in fact, every court can rely on common law in addition to statutory law and executive orders in rendering its decisions.

Common law is the sum total of all unrepealed appellate court decisions, from those rendered by judges in Merry Olde England right up to decisions rendered yesterday or even today on the benches of our highest courts.

This vast body of common law has been growing since we declared Independence in 1776.

Sadly, some growth has been away from common-sense decisions of our earliest courts. The recent rise of “collectivist thinking” by appellate justices and law school professors (who instill their nonsense in young law students who later sit on benches in our highest courts) is undermining the old-fashioned common-sense common law that guided our earliest courts and gave our nation its birth.

For example, Citizens United v Federal Election Commission is a case wrongly made part of our common law when decided by the United States Supreme Court in 2010. It holds that the God-given rights of us individuals are secondary to the “judge-invented” rights of corporations. Corporations are not people! Corporations do not have inalienable rights. This case sneaked by the American people. It “invented” the ignorant idea that corporations are entitled to God-given rights. The impact of this case destroyed the power of your vote. It undermines your ability to control politicians whose campaigns are supported by massive donations from massive corporations. We the People cannot compete in politics with massively wealthy corporations. Yet, this case remains part of our common law today.

Citizens United is just one of many cases polluting what was once our common-sense common law.

Misunderstanding about what common law truly IS has allowed politicians and high court justices to re-write and re-invent what once was a sacred set of common-sense Principles codified in those early common law cases that we inherited from England and faithfully followed by our courts for the first few years of our nation’s infancy.

The common-sense common law Principles that launched our nation are being hidden from you, while willful misunderstanding about common law continues to empower the rich to rob you of rights once held sacred by wiser judges of long, long ago.

If you wish to rein in the power of today’s courts that wander from the common-sense concepts of early English decisions and the common-sense concepts of our own early appellate court decisions, abandon your misconception about what common law truly IS.

Learn the truth!

Then teach others how to empower themselves with case-winning knowledge and fight together as a united force for Justice in our courts!

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