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Like Hebrew law, much of American law depends on the concept of jus gentium, or that law "which natural reason established among all mankind" and which "is observed equally by all peoples (Corwin, 1971, p. 17)." Nevertheless, the jus civile of each people is peculiar to itself. In this context, much of Jewish law is not civil law per se, but law that is focused on voluntary individual behaviors adopted or accepted to varying degrees by members of a religious group which, dependi

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