TY - BOOK AU - Brauch,Jeffrey A. TI - Is higher law common law?: readings on the influence of Christian thought in Anglo-American law SN - 0837703670 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - KF 380 .B62 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Littleton, Colo. PB - F.B. Rothman KW - Common Law KW - United States KW - Philosophy KW - LEMB KW - Religion and law KW - Great Britain KW - Local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xiv); Higher law thinking: man's law is based on and evaluated by the law of God - - The shift from higher law thinking to legal relativism - - Introduction to the common law - - Civil and criminal procedure - - Property - - Criminal law - - Torts - - Contracts - - Christian reconstruction - - Dispensationalism - - Some middle ground - - Christian Libertarianism: a minimal legal code - - God's law as a moral influence on man's law ER -