Ahhh Jeff, Lynch v Clark was not heard by the US Supreme Court.
Still waiting for you to show where ECL was incorporated into United States law. You can show that can’t you?
I never said Lynch v. Clarke was heard by the US Supreme Court. I said that the Supreme Court accepted the argument that had been presented in that earlier case.
Based upon having studied the efforts of George Mason as well as his writings and statements of which there is a reliable record, you are correct regarding the Constitution as originally ratified. Mason refused to put his hand to it at the Convention, walking out rather than signing it, because he regarded it as wholly overturning the common law. And, it did. There was no vestige of it.
Mason then immediately began a campaign via letters and pamphlets that was quite influential in numerous States, to include a Bill Of Rights along the lines of that which he himself put together for his home State of Virginia. This refusal and this campaign jeopardized ratification. It caused a major rift between Mason and his old friend and neighbor George Washington.
James Madison intervened as a go-between. Madison is credited with being the so-called father of The Bill Of Rights, incorporated into the national law via a series of Constitutional Amendments entered into immediately after ratification.
As a result, there is Common Law in United States law, but it was limited entirely to those Amendments intended to encorporate the Bill Of Rights. We have George Mason to thank for that. His insistence exacted a huge toll upon him personally, and in particular, historically speaking.
Few know him as a Founder. But, that he was.