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The Judicial Branch - supreme court
The Robert's Court
The Supreme Court as composed October 27, 2020 to 2022.
Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
RBG (1933 - 2020)
President Clinton nominated Ms. Ginsberg as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993. Justice Ginsberg served on the Court until her death, September 18, 2020.
Seated, from left: Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel A. Alito, Jr.; standing, from left: Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Brett M. Kavanaugh
Photo- Fred Schilling (1970- ) for the Supreme Court
God & The Golden Rules - The Foundation of LifE & Law
The Golden Rules of a Civil Society
America was founded on the Judeo-Christian principles expressed in the Ten Commandments. Moses, as told by the Old Testament, brought the tablet of Commandments as stated by God, to all the People of the World to follow.
Throughout the ages, the Commandments IV-X (4-10) have been accepted universally as the "Golden" Rules, which are the basic behaviors expected in a civil society, and are the foundation of many laws in America and throughout the world.
In God We Trust
"In God We Trust" refers to trusting the Creator of life and the Universe, and does not refer to a particular religion or a government body which might claim to rule by divine right.
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God in the United States refers to the Creator (referenced in the Declaration of Independence). This Creator created everyone at birth with equal and unalienable rights, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -
The U.S. Declaration of Independence begins:
”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . . ."
E-Pluribus Unum
Latin for "Out of Many, One."
There are many religions practiced in the United States, and the First Amendment of the Constitution provides the People the guaranteed freedom to believe or not believe in a religion or God - without government interference. Also, the government can not establish a religion which all citizens must follow.
The First Amendment begins:
"Congress shall make no laws respecting an
Establishment of religion, or
Prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Or Abridging the Freedom of speech . . ."