Ten Commandments: Supreme Court Opinion and Briefs with Indexes

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Nova Publishers, 2006 - 172 من الصفحات
One of the key founding principles of the United States of America was separation of church and state. Keeping them separate, however, has been a non-trivial problem from the outset of the republic. It is difficult to determine if banning statues of the 'Ten Commandments' should merit the attention of the high court, when there are so many blatant examples of real attacks on America's principles going on, but perhaps because it is so visible, the people are being treated to this presentation. Many say 'leave the Ten Commandments statues alone and watch the folks who are trying to plant a bomb under it instead'. And the Supreme Court itself is divided on the issue as is evident from this book. If there is an issue here, it is probably a blue versus red state issue.

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Supreme Court Slip Opinion October Term 2004 Syllabus
Brief for Petitioners
55
Reply Brief for Petitioners
93
Brief for Respondents
111
Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Brief after Argument and Supplemental Brief after Argument for Petitioners
149
Supplemental Brief After Argument For Petitioners
153
Index
159
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الصفحة 108 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained •without religion.
الصفحة 32 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
الصفحة 10 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant nor his maidservant, nor his ox nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
الصفحة 36 - I shall need too' the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life...
الصفحة 43 - All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
الصفحة 5 - DC 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, In order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.
الصفحة 35 - Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
الصفحة 32 - Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
الصفحة 33 - It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.
الصفحة 7 - Honor thy father and thy mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor's.

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