A collection of analytical and critical essays by practicing solo trial attorneys intended for the working public to explain the workings, nature, and theoretical basis of common law decision making. It contains a history of Western jurisprudence beginning with the earliest known common law decisions of the Old Testament continuing to Greek and Roman classical law, medieval legal systems, and then onto the modern American common law legal culture. The book critiques modern legal culture as a secular religion for modern technological society that is negating and replacing traditional concepts...