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Jefferson, who as a careful historian had made a study of the origin of the maxim [that the Common Law is inextricably NOT linked with Christianity], challenged such an assertion. He noted that "the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or that such a character existed.