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• Title: Public Displays of Affection ... for God: Religious Monuments After Mccreary and van Orden.
• Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 315 KB

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INTRODUCTION On March 2, 2005, the United States Supreme Court heard two cases involving the constitutionality of public displays of the Ten Commandments under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment: McCreary County v. ACLU (1) and Van Orden v. Perry. (2) McCreary involved a display of nine copies of historically significant documents in identical frames hanging on the walls of two Kentucky courthouses. The documents included the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner. They also included the text of the Ten Commandments, accompanied by a statement explaining the role of the Commandments in influencing American law. In Van Orden, the challenged display was a granite monument--six feet high and three-and-a-half feet wide--whose primary content was the text of the Ten Commandments but which also included two Stars of David and the Greek letters Chi and Rho, an ancient symbol for Jesus Christ. As one commentator predicted at the time, "[T]hese two cases are likely to be resolved in accordance with I Kings 3:16-28[:] And [O'Connor] said: 'Fetch me a sword.' And they brought a sword before [O'Connor]. And [O'Connor] said: 'Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.'" (3)

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