-By Warner Todd Huston
Georgia Governor, Republican Nathan Deal has signed an amended “historical display” law that will allow America’s founding documents as well as the Ten Commandments and the Magna Carta to be posted at schools and other government buildings in addition to the courthouses as the original bill allowed.
The amended law introduced by State Rep. Tommy Benton (R, Jefferson, Dist. 31) allows the “Foundations of American Law & Government Display” to be publicly displayed in “all public buildings.”
The display includes the following documents:
- The Ten Commandments
- The Mayflower Compact, 1620
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ by Francis Scott Key
- The National Motto: “In God We Trust”
- The Preamble to the Georgia Constitution
- The Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution
- The description on the image of Lady Justice
An earlier law signed in 2006 by Governor Sonny Perdue allowed the documents to be displayed only in court buildings in the Peach State.
In a statement, Dr. Jody Hice, President and founder of Ten Commandments Georgia said he hoped the legislation should “serve as a model for all 50 states. The country should recognize what we have done here and try to duplicate it over and over again!”
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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