Moses and the Modern Court

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This paper explains that the national court system is built on the Mosaic model. The local courts judge local matters, which give rise to an appeal process that leads to the district court and appellate courts,and eventually the Supreme Court if the matter needs to be addressed on a national level. The author believes that had Moses been a leader like liberal President Clinton he would have quickly failed and created a nation of self-serving rather than God-serving people. The paper argues that the activist court is creating a self-seeking populace and political elite class that considers itself above the law and seeks to govern the masses for its own benefit, rather than for the well-being of the country.

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"Moses had stood before Pharaoh and, with God's help, delivered millions of people from slavery into freedom. Now, as they left Sinai with a list of commandments, as well as traditions and customs, handed down to them from God himself, the children of Israel faced a long transformation. They had to build a new collective identity. The Israelites needed to become a people with a sense of self-governance, after spending 400 years in Egypt as slaves during which their every move was dictated for them."

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