The Ten Commandments and Public Schools

Al's colleague at North Carolina, Gene Nichol (pictured), has a thoughtful editorial in today's local Raleigh newspaper, addressing a state law that permits public school administrators to display "documents and objects of historical significance that have formed and influenced the United States legal or governmental system and that exemplify the development of the rule of law, such as the Magna Carta, the Mecklenburg Declaration, the Ten Commandments, [and] the Justinian Code ...."

And if, like me, you need a refresher on the "Mecklenburg Declaration," click here for background information.

Comments

[Matt Lister]

Thanks for that Tim. For some reason I'd long thought that the Mecklenburg Declaration was an ancient precursor to the UCC, but once I saw that _you_ didn't know what it was, I knew I'd been wrong. Now I know.