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A 5 page paper which discusses the
removal of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama State Courthouse. Bibliography
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of controversy for almost everyone in the nation. Many people, some of whom do not consider themselves Christian, argue that the Ten Commandments should have remained where they were due
to their connection with the history of the nation. Other have clearly argued that the Ten Commandments presence in a legal institution of this country should not be allowed due
to Constitutional facts. With these simple conditions in mind the following paper examines the removal of the Ten Commandments. The paper argues that the Ten Commandments had no right in
the Alabama court house because of Constitutional elements. Ten Commandments Throughout much of the controversy it appears as though there was one individual who argued the most vehemently
about keeping the Ten Commandments in the Court House in Alabama. "Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has long displayed a reverence--or obsession, depending on your point of view--for the Ten
Commandments. The Scripture has been a good calling card for Moore, gaining him notoriety far beyond the realm of circuit-court judges after he first decorated his courtroom in 1995 with
a hand-carved rosewood plaque bearing Gods laws" (Winters, 2003; 53). In the past he was successful in prevailing "over civil libertarians who sued for its removal, and rode his fame
even further in 2000, when he was elected chief justice of Alabamas supreme court on the slogan Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge. But while he earned folk-hero status
among Evangelicals and conservatives, last week he finally pushed the legal establishment too far when he ignored a federal court order to remove his largest monument to the Commandments, a
5,280-lb. granite carving known as Roys Rock" (Winters, 2003; 53). They were actually found to be in violation of the Constitution back in 1997 when "Montgomery County Circuit Judge
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