JimBowie1958
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If it is just legal history, why demand that no other displays are allowed? The SCOTUS building has Moses and the 10C on it. But there are also other famous law givers, like Mohammad, Confucious, Justinian ect ect.
I dont know the answer to that, honestly. I thought that there were some other symbolic representations of major points in the history of law.
Actually, I just checked Wikipedia and found thihs.
United States Supreme Court Building - Wikipedia
Courtroom friezes: The South Wall Frieze includes figures of lawgivers from the ancient world and includes Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Augustus. The North Wall Frieze shows lawgivers from the Middle Ages on and includes representations of Justinian, Muhammad, Charlemagne, John, King of England, Louis IX of France, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon. The Moses frieze depicts him holding the Ten Commandments, although only commandments six through ten, usually considered the more secular commands, are visible.
So it seems fairly sanitized of any particular religion to my mind.