Supreme Court

[jfreas]

Thinking about our Our Supreme Court
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> > >Did you know...
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> > >As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building in Washington DC which
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> > >houses the Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row
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> > >the world's law givers and each one is facing an individual in the
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> > >who in turn is facing forward with a full frontal view - - it is Moses
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> > >the Ten Commandments!
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> > >As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, each of the two huge oak
doors
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> > >have the Ten Commandments engraved on the lower portion of each door.
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> > >you sit inside the courtroom you will observe above where the Supreme
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> > >judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!
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> > >There are Bible verses etched in stone on many of the Federal Buildings
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> > >Monuments throughout Washington, D.C..
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> > >James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our
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> > >Constitution" made the following statement "We have staked the whole of
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> > >our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for
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> > >self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
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> > >ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the
> >Ten
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> > >Commandments of God."
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> > >Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said,
"It
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> > >cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation
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> > >founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on
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> > >Gospel of Jesus Christ".
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> > >Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher whose
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> > >salary has been paid by the taxpayers of the country since 1777.
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> > >Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of
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> > >orthodox churches in the colonies.
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> > >Thomas Jefferson worried the Courts would overstep their authority and
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> > >instead of interpreting the law would begin making law.
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> > >How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for
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> > >years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
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[Doc Crow]

Another Great Post on how oddly sqewed things are

[ivalis]

The supreme court does not meet in the Capitol Building, it meets ,in the aptly named, Supreme Court Building.