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Justice Rehnquist argued in his dissent that the statute did not violate the First Amendment because there was a legitimate secular purpose to the Ten Commandments' posting. He wrote, "the Ten Commandments have had a significant impact on the development of secular legal codes of the Western World," which he qualified as a secular purpose ...
The Mishna records that during the period of the Second Temple, the Ten Commandments were recited daily, [75] before the reading of the Shema Yisrael (as preserved, for example, in the Nash Papyrus, a Hebrew manuscript fragment from 150 to 100 BC found in Egypt, containing a version of the Ten Commandments and the beginning of the Shema); but ...
Several alternatives to the Ten Commandments have been promulgated by different persons and groups, which intended to improve on the lists of laws known as the Ten Commandments that appear in the Bible. Lists of these kinds exist in many different cultures and times. They are sometimes given names – for example, the Hindu Yamas.
No Bible translation is named, but the Ten Commandments in the Louisiana law appears to be a variation on the King James Bible version and listed in the order commonly used by Protestants.
The 10 Commandments have had a part in American culture from the very beginning. As is commonly noted, they have served to influence a small degree of American legal life.
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of Georgia’s state capitol. A federal judge has blocked Louisiana’s law requiring similar posters in ...
In its 1980 decision Stone v.Graham, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Kentucky statute requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms across the state violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, noting that the Ten Commandments were not fully secular, and thus violated the separation of church and state.
Paul Prather: A few months ago, I experienced an epiphany—no angels or whirlwinds, just one of those aha moments we all have in various arenas of life, from auto repairs to cooking to Bible studies.