Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep theory – behind our nation’s most consequential constitutional decisions. On ...

I recently saw that Tennessee's supermajority Republican legislature is trying to allow the display of the Ten Commandments in our public schools (House Bill 47/Senate Bill 303). As a pastor I am ...

The Texas legislature has become the latest state to pass a bill mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools throughout the state. Similar bills have recently been signed into law ...

South Carolina's House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill requiring public schools and universities to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

A controversial bill moving through the state House would require the Ten Commandments to hang on the walls of every South ...

Republicans on the Tennessee House Education Committee approved House Bill 47, which would allow schools to display the Ten Commandments.

A local lawmaker’s bill regarding the display of the Ten Commandments was amended and will be sent on to the full chamber for ...

A bill requiring schools to keep a copy of the Ten Commandments in their libraries and allowing teachers and principals to display them has been advanced by the House Education Committee.

Supporters say the text is necessary to understanding the country’s founding documents. But critics say the display violates ...