Edited sentence: Before these social laws the common law marriages were the only kind since the time of the first written religious texts and had nothing to do with the power of the state and the requirement of a signature to give up one's common law rights.Common law began to erode in the USA starting in approximately 1905 and was quickly being replaced by civil law or social law which was popularized by the popularity of Marxism.Common law stood as a block for the more progressive civil law or social laws that were becoming more popular.On September 1, 1919 John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow started converting the SLP into the USA Communist party which would have been rendered inert by the common law.One example was the common law marriage was replaced with a civil code marriage which required a license and a legal partnership with the state.Progressive civil laws or social laws needed to quickly replace common law doctrine for the conversion to work.Since 1924 when social laws took a firm foothold over common law rights a signature was required to convert any common law right into a social law privilege that now could be taxed,licensed and also taken away.The Communist party was called the Socialist Labor Party (SLP), formed in 1876