Christianity

The movement claim that the common law is 'founded upon the Holy Bible' — making biblical authority a structural source of operative American law — is partially supported as 19th-century historical doctrine and foreclosed as modern operative claim

The movement claim that the common law is 'founded upon the Holy Bible' has 19th-century historical descriptive support (Joseph Story, Blackstone) but no operative-law force today. Christian-tradition influence on early common-law doctrine is documentable; biblical authority as a structural source of modern American law is not. The descriptive seed survives; the doctrinal conclusion is foreclosed.