History - Past and Perspective
Why Won’t the Ten Commandments Just Go Away?

Vol. 34, No. 13

July 9, 2018

Why Won’t the Ten Commandments Just Go Away?

Conflicts over putting Ten Commandments displays on public grounds keep recurring, but they shouldn’t. The Ten Commandments form the foundation of federal and local laws. ...

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Colonel John A. Eidsmoe, a retired Air Force judge advocate, is professor of constitutional law for Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy and senior counsel and resident scholar for the Foundation for Moral Law.

From the print edition of The New American:

Conflicts over putting Ten Commandments displays on public grounds keep recurring, but they shouldn’t. The Ten Commandments form the foundation of federal and local laws.

Those Ten Commandments again! Just when the Left thinks they’ve buried the Decalog fully six feet under, they spring up again like perennial flowers on a courthouse lawn, in a city park, or on the grounds of a state capitol.

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