The Ten Commandments: A Historical Document in American and Tennessee Education
When Americans debate whether the Ten Commandments have a legitimate place in public education, the discussion is often reduced to one question: Are the Ten Commandments religious? The answer is unquestionably yes.
But that is not where the question ends.
Tennessee’s Constitution, Once the “Least Imperfect and Most Republican of the State Constitutions”
Thomas Jefferson referred to the Tennessee Constitution as the “least imperfect and most republican of the state constitutions” when he received it in 1796.