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Judge Moore and the Godless 14th Amendment
By placing a monument inscribed with
the Decalogue in the Alabama judicial building, Judge Moore is accused of
having infringed the Establishment clause of the First Amendment, according to
which Congress shall make no law that would establish an official religion or
would interfere with the free exercise of religion.
A federal district court ordered
that the Decalogue should be removed.
When she says that the Decalogue
represents a civilizing moral code to which nobody could object, the journalist
seems to be siding with Judge Moore.
The Bill of Rights, she argues, was
originally intended to put limits on the power of federal government. She
claims that “by vesting its enforcement in the national rather than in the
state governments”, (i. e. by enabling the federal government to force state
governments to abide by its provisions) not only does the 14th
Amendment distort the original intention (/changes the scope) of the Bill of
Rights but it also affects the principle of Federalism, which is guaranteed by
(depends on / is based on) the balance of authority between federal power and
state power and by the limits placed on the power of the federal government.
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