re: #37 barflytom

Yes, I’m not 3 years old. You’re splitting hairs. If a state has adopted a particular form of law since it came into existence as a state, then those laws aren’t “foreign” in any meaningful way, wherever the legal tradition they’re based on comes from.

So, in other words, it’s like that our laws, even though they’re derived from foreign sources, have, because of our constitution and our interpretation of those laws, become ours.

Nifty.

You know perfectly well that the intention is to stop courts from considering some trendy piece of human rights law or whatever because it suits them.

Oh really? That’s why it specifically talks about Sharia law?