I think that, had the much-disputed Ten Commandments been only one of a group of memorials to our legal history, the religious question would never have arisen. It was the fact of its solitary position to which the court (rightly, I think) took exception. Had, for instance, the Code of Hammurabi, Magna Carta, and/or other milestones of jurisprudence through the ages accompanied the Ten Commandments, the courts might have ruled differently. After all, whether or not one subscribes to the Christian religion, culturally we all share it as part of our past history as a nation, as we all share the history of slavery and indentured servants, the disenfranchisement of non-propertied people, the immigrations of the Irish, the Chinese, and others.