Ten Commandments

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All around the world people have different opinions and different point of views, especially when it comes to public issues that concerns everyone. And people are more concerned when it comes to religious problems, such as the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are statements that are related to religion, and highly respected by the three holly religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They include basic rules that one should follow in life and they are meant to guide people how to behave in their lives. For example, the 8th commandment: “Thou shalt not steal.” Such issue aroused a conflict among people, about whether the Ten Commandments should be kept as an essential guide that is dependable, or they should be removed and be replaced by the constitution. According to the article “Supreme Court Should Uphold Rights, Not Majority Sentiment in Ten Commandments cases” the writer Thomas A. Bowden is against the Ten Commandments and he believes that they should be removed because, in his opinion, they are against liberty and individual rights. Although the writer’s argument was strong according to his beliefs, yet he was not convincing and did not support his ideas well in his article. Also, the principles and logos used in the article are weak because the Ten Commandments are not only religious, as mentioned, they have other aspects.

After analyzing the text, there are some parts where the writer did not support his arguments. When he talked about the abortion and homosexuals cases that happened in the late nineteen’s, he said that the Supreme Court has exercised judicial review to support these cases and it actually happened. The judicial review supported the minority to have equality among people. The writer now is relating the case of the Ten Commandments to these cases that were exercised by the judicial review in the past. He wants the Ten Commandments to be treated the same way as these cases were, by the “jud...