1[On the Law of Nature and the Moral Sense among Animals and among Men, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Jewish Law that oxen, and Horses, that pushed or kicked a Man to death, or that copulated with any man or woman, should be slain, stand on this Principle, that the Brutes knew the Prohibitions they were under and...
2A New Version of the Lord’s Prayer, [late 1768?] (Franklin Papers)
to God on many Occasions by the Jewish Law, which when People could not pay, or had forgotten as Debtors are apt to do, it was proper to pray that those Debts might be forgiven. Our Liturgy uses neither the
3Adams’ Argument for the Defense: 3–4 December 1770 (Adams Papers)
..., or peculiar, and instead of being unknown in the civil law, that it is carried much further in many respects than in the common law. And indeed it seems that the like indulgence, was permitted in the Jewish law—though it has been so often represented as peculiar to the English law, that many persons seem to think it unwarrantable, and tending to leave the guilt of blood upon the land...
4From Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyne, 15 October 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...me wherever there are Children by the preceding Match, if any Law were to be made relating to such Marriages, it should rather be to enjoin than to forbid them; the Reason being stronger than that given for the Jewish Law, which enjoined the Widow to marry the Brother of a
5Extracts of John Baynes’s Journal, 23 September 1783–17 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
I observed that this was the Jewish law of descent. He asked if it was to be found among Moses’ laws? I answered that it was.
6To George Washington from “A Sympathizer with the Afflicted,” 12 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
...the earnest Wish that you most honourd Sir and the approvd of your Council may I here once more Excuse another quotation from S[c]ripture (may Say as was once adress’d to an ofender most Capitaly of the Jewish Law) “Go thy way and Sin no more.”
7Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 27 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
it’s foundation seems to have been laid in the spirit & principles of Jewish law, incorporated with some words & phrases of
8To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
...do not consider him as a correct common lawyer: yet as much so as any one which ever came, or ever can come from one of the Eastern states. Their system of Jurisprudence, made up from the Jewish law, a little dash of Common law, & a great mass of original notions of their own, is a thing sui generis, and one educated in that system can never so far eradicate early impressions as to imbibe...
9Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
...I do not consider him as a correct common lawyer: yet as much so as any one which ever came, or ever can come from one of the Eastern states. their system of Jurisprudence, made up from the Jewish law, a little dash of Common law, & a great mass of original notions of their own, is a thing
10From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 7 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
...the fear of the ineffable Jehovah, than could possibly be those of the heathen deities which were Vanity and a Lie we must irresistibly conclude that the sanction to the moral part of the jewish law was as much more powerful and efficacious than that of any other morality as the moral itself was more calculated to promote the dignity and happiness of Humankind In my next letter I shall...