| Page 2 of Washington, DC pages HOME USA a Christian Nation? The Ten Commandments and the US Constitution var sc_project=620675; var sc_partition=3; var sc_security="873f4780"; The The US Supreme Court is also based on the classical architecture of pagan temples. Comparing it with the architectural orders of buildings such as The Parthenon leaves no question as to it's design source. The same expressions of diverse western currents expressed in the Captol are also seen in and on the Supreme Court building. Several Friezes, inside and out, portray an array of lawmakers and lawgivers from history, east and west, that contributed to the formation of western secular law. Over the back entrance (east) is a frieze depicting 3 great eastern lawgivers, Solon, Confucius, and Moses (holding 2 blank tablets) sculpted by Herman MacNeil. In the courtroom, on the south wall is a frieze of 18 famous lawgivers sculpted by Adolf Weinman. On the left of center, representing lawgivers before the current era are Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Augustus. On the right of center, representing lawgivers of the current era are Justinian, Mohammed, Charlemagne, King John, St. Louis, Hugo Grotius, William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon. Much is also made by evangelicals of the tablet behind the Bench. Firstly, it is one tablet, not two which has always been the customary symbolic porttrayal of the commandments. For a long time, people thought that the one tablet represented ancient laws between the 2 allegorical figures of law and government but it turns out that this was not Weinman's intention. According to the | |
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