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Charles Louis Montesquieu was French.
He came up with the idea of a legislative, executive, and judicial branch.
He also came up with the entire "checks and balances" thing (or may of just came up with the name for it)


And here you can find some of the people who influenced the constitution.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761 … tates.html
Section IV "Ideas behind the constitution"

SoulWrangler wrote:

Ive taken a few paralegal courses, and if Im correct, our laws are actually far too advanced for humans to have come up with ourselves. We stole them off of an alien space ship that crash landed here thousands of years ago.

You have officially said too much.

SoulWrangler wrote:

Ive taken a few paralegal courses, and if Im correct, our laws are actually far too advanced for humans to have come up with ourselves. We stole them off of an alien space ship that crash landed here thousands of years ago.

But where did they get them from?

I believe he means his goals are for everyone to love each other in the "Why can't we all just get along." style. He learned it from his mother most likely, she loves all the citizens of the world, allot.

His liberalism is key though. The fact that he can say such a thing and get away with it. You do realize he tells Unions they're jobs will be protected yet his plan is the New World Order, which means in my best estimation he wants all countries to be 2nd world countries. Lower 1st world and raise the 3rd world. Averaging out life for everyone.

IronSun: The best answer I can give for that is that the aliens actually created the universe and shaped the physical constraints that it is governed under in a way that allowed the laws to exist at certain points in binary code in certain transcendental numbers such as pi, which we interpreted into our own language with our knowledge of math and computer science.

Where the creator aliens got those laws from, I havent got a fuck of a clue. The universal constant that inspires obama, possibly?

Actually got it out of Contact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)#A_message_from_God_in_pi

zukiphile wrote:

AudiCQ wrote:

I believe thundersnow is right... If I remember correctly, our constitution was written based on some French school of thought from back then. Our government was "modeled" after the Romans too if I recall.

No.

Our founding fathers were big fans of this guy http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/blackstone/ and a lot of our law is based on his work.  Our legal system is based on English Common Law, which is a departure of sorts from Roman Law.  The French still adhere to a system similar to Roman law.  The big distinction is that common law systems places a lot of value on precedent, the results of similar trials, etc.  Roman and Napoleanic law is the opposite, rejecting precedent and instead relying on the written law.

Having said that and not knowing the context in which Obama made the statement, I'd assume he said it to pander to the common perception among Americans that the rest of the world thinks we're stupid, self-centered morons.  Furthermore we act unilaterally and rashly.  These same people believe GW did a lot to promote this stereotype (or even prove its truth), and they believe that Obama can help reverse this.  I don't see it as much more than that.

Last edited by Full Metal Jackass (09-17-2008 08:47 PM)