A little known fact is that the ten commandants, and related laws given to Moses by the God of  Israel & of the founders of this nation. Are the very foundation of our western culture and of the thousand-year history of Anglo-American common law our Declaration of independence,  U.S. Constitution and Bill of rights! 
 
Which includes the commands, of for justice for all, the ban against cruel & unusual punishment, perjury, our right to bankruptcy ect, which also were the inspiration for many of our other historical documents and laws.