[SuziQ]

10 Commandments don't exactly jive with the Bill of Rights, guess which the Supreme Court is charged with upholding...

May be, but ALL laws in our country stem from those first Ten Commandments. Those who designed the Supreme Court building acknowledged that connection. I guess in this era of not wanting to offend anyone, the recent stewards of the building didn't want any religious references at all, which is quite silly.

[Gunslingr3]

May be, but ALL laws in our country stem from those first Ten Commandments.

If ALL laws in our country stem from the 10 commandments can you rectify the incongruency of freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights and the commandments expressly forbidding religious freedom?

[Nancee]

"10 Commandments don't exactly jive with the Bill of Rights, guess which the Supreme Court is charged with upholding..."

Here is just a sampling of what Thomas Jefferson had to say about the "Supreme Court":

"Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them...But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch."*1

And this:

"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in...the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be ursurped from the States."*2

It is my observation and opinion that this is precisely what we are living with today: the Supreme Court is a despotic group which has ursurped enormous power from the States.

Nancee

*1 Letter to Abigail Adams, September 11, 1804.

*2 Letter to Mr. Hammond (1821).

[Publius Valerius]

I guess in this era of not wanting to offend anyone, the recent stewards of the building didn't want any religious references at all, which is quite silly.

For what it's worth, I last visited the Supreme Court building about six months ago, and I took the ten minute "tour." One person specifically asked the question about the Ten Commandments, and the tour guide said exactly what you did: it is represented in the artwork because it is foundational to our system of law and government.

It's noteworthy that I had a different experience than this fellow.

[Nancee]

"...but ALL laws in our country stem from those first Ten Commandments..."

AMEN!!!

Nancee