thought it was the flaky liberals who were mindlessly took everything they heard or read to be the truth and then went about like zombies regurgitating nonsense because they were too lazy or too far out in the zone to check whether it was true. apparently youre not really a conservative....cuz as you can see, that whole page you copied is nonsense.
| As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments! |
do tell. the sculpture to which you refer is on the back (eastern) side of the building so you wouldnt likely see it walking up the steps to the court. the sculptor who created it (herman mcneil) featured 3 lawgivers (kung fu tse, solon and moses) and explained his work this way:
Law as an element of civilization was normally and naturally derived or inherited in this country from former civilizations. The "Eastern Pediment" of the Supreme Court Building suggests therefore the treatment of such fundamental laws and precepts as are derived from the East. Moses, Confucius and Solon are chosen as representing three great civilizations and form the central group of this Pediment.
enlarge the pic and youll see theyre all facing forward as are some of the allegorical figures. the others are facing the center three--not just moses.
| As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. |
wishin dont make it so. there is a tablet in the bottom frame of each door but no text is enscribed. just the roman numberals l thru X. no commandments...no religious text
| As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments! |
not hardly. what is really there is this frieze by adolph weinman who included two central male figures representing 'majesty of law' and 'power of government' the tablets--like those on the doors--are enscribed only with roman numebrals l-X and represent the bill of rights.
there are two similar wienman friezes on the north and south walls depicting menes, hammurabi, moses, solomon, lycurgus, solon, draco, kung fu-tze, octavian (on the south wall) and justinian, mohammed, charlemagne, king john, louis IX, hugo grotius, sir william blackstone, john marshall and napoleon (on the north wall).
this is the one on the south wall. moses is third from the left. the tablets in this case have some hebrew text comprising part of several commandments. according to the curator of the court building, the intention of weinman's design (and the reason moses is not prominent nor is any of the others):
Weinman's training emphasized a correlation between the sculptural subject and the function of the building and, because of this, [architect Cass] Gilbert relied on him to choose the subjects and figures that best reflected the function of the Supreme Court building. Faithful to classical sources, Weinman designed for the Courtroom friezes a procession of "great lawgivers of history," from many civilizations, to portray the development of secular law.
James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of
Our Constitution" made the following statement:
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions
upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each
and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." |
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find where madison said that please (but dont feel too badly if you cant because he didnt. madison was a strong proponent of separation of church and state --as you should know cuz youve directed me to links that proved rather than contradicted that. the patrick henry quote is also bullshit. dont believe me tho...find it.
