Is the constitution of the United States of American based on the Ten Commandments.?

Question

I asked the question because a staff member here at my school recently sent out an email stating that the constitution is based on the Ten Commandments. The email also included a petition to restore prayer in the public schools. I just wanted more input on the subject.

Answer 1

No, the US Constitution is primarily based on fundamental principles of law and government for a Republic. A large number of tenets set down in the US Constitution were specifically written to prevent many of the abuses that were transpiring in England under a monarchy.

Answer 2

Only partially. The Constitution is also based on the doctrine of Natural Rights by certain European philosophers, the Common Law of England and the treatment of the American colonists by the British government. In part, it's a practical document that reflects what our founding fathers found to be unfair treatment by the British, so a historic analysis cannot be ignored. However, all laws have a basis in the 10 Commandments.

Answer 3

Actually,The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - established in 1638-39 as the first written constitution in America and considered as the direct predecessor of the U. S. Constitution - declared that the Governor and his council of six elected officials would “have power to administer justice according to the laws here established; and for want thereof according to the rule of the word of God.”
Right now in Michigan they are upset about the Adultery law that is still on the books and could mean life in prison! The first colony's incorporated the Ten Commandments into their laws, as did George Washington..
This first commandment is incorporated into the very first written code of laws enacted in America, those of the Virginia Colony. In 1610, in a law enacted by the Colony leaders.Other states which had laws based on the First Commandment, 1641 Massachusetts. The very first law in that State code was based on the first commandment.
The Ten Commandments are incorporated into America’s civil documents.
In 1824, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (in a decision subsequently invoked authoritatively and endorsed by the U. S. Supreme Court ) reaffirmed that the civil laws against blasphemy were derived from divine law. First is the inclusion in the U. S. Constitution of the recognition of the Sabbath in Art. I, Sec. 7, ¶ 2, stipulating that the President has 10 days to sign a law, “Sundays excepted.” The “Sundays excepted” clause had previously appeared in the individual State constitutions of that day, and therefore, when incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, carried the same meaning that had been established by traditional usage in the States.
In 1638, the Rhode Island government adopted “all those perfect and most absolute laws of His, given us in His holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby. Exod. 24. 3, 4; 2 Chron. II. 3; 2 Kings. II. 17.”
The following year, 1639, the New Haven Colony adopted its “Fundamental Articles” for the governance of that Colony, and when the question was placed before the colonists:
Whether the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men in all dut[ies] which they are to perform to God and men as well in the government of families and commonwealths as in matters of the church, this was assented unto by all.
1672, Connecticut revised its laws and reaffirmed its civil adherence to the laws established in the Scriptures, declaring:
The serious consideration of the necessity of the establishment of wholesome laws for the regulating of each body politic hath inclined us mainly in obedience unto Jehovah the Great Lawgiver, Who hath been pleased to set down a Divine platform not only of the moral but also of judicial laws suitable for the people of Israel; as . . . laws and constitutions suiting our State.
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Answer 4

i think of that interior the years of the the form beginning the bible had a significant function interior the introduction of the form yet on the comparable time i do no longer agree that each and every regulation is predicated on the ten Commandments.

Answer 5

NO!!!!!! the only section of the law that has any resemblance to the ten commandments is the part thou shalt not give false witness. Also know as perjury. That is it anything else is bunk.

Answer 6

No. The Constitution is based upon what the Founders thought was wrong with the English Monarchy. I like to think they got it right.

Answer 7

It might have been once upon a time but these days most people love themselves and their money more then God so I guess that is breaking all the commandments especially the first.

Answer 8

No its actual conception was borrowed from the six nations of the Iriquois league according to Ben Franklin

Answer 9

the bases for law may be the ten commandments not the constitution.

Answer 10

NO
It is an original Doc written by free thinkers who invented it with their own free minds