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Ten Commandments? The Real Issue

The money passage from the latest column of Alan Keyes, that needs to be shouted from the rooftops:

The First Amendment to the Constitution plainly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …” Since there can be no federal law on the subject, there appears to be no lawful basis for any element of the federal government – including the courts – to act in this area.
Moreover, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution plainly states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This means that the power to make laws respecting an establishment of religion, having been explicitly withheld from the United States, is reserved to the states or to the people.

Taken together, therefore, the First and 10th Amendments reserve the power to address issues of religious establishment to the different states and their people.

Well done, as usual, Alan. I hope someone will file this text as a ‘freind of the court” brief, when this question is finally taken up by the USSC.
Here’s the link to the full text. [1]