The Ten Commandments go to Court (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #048)

The entire Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is going to hear oral argument on two cases involving laws that force public schools to display a version of the Ten Commandments drafted by politicians who think they know better than parents. Andrew examines the basis for these law: the claim that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of American law and government. 

• Here’s a link to some screenshots of the Google NGram graphs that Andrew mentioned.
• Here’s the full text of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to James Fishback (Draft), 27 September 1809, at the National Archives.
• Andrew L. Seidel is author of these books on the Constitution and the history of the separation of church and state, and why the United States was not founded as a Christian nation or on the Ten Commandments, despite what Christian nationalists would have you believe, and the lies they tell about history.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-cwz94-2a719874