Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), was a court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Kentucky statute was unconstitutional and in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, because it lacked a nonreligious, legislative purpose.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A new push in Frankfort could bring the Ten Commandments into Kentucky classrooms.House Bill 116—filed by Rep. Richard White, of Morehead—would let local school boards allow ...

1 day ago · was falsely included in a scam. a kentucky lawmaker wants to bring the ten commandments into public schools. morehead representative richard white filed the legislation under house bill 116.

20 hours ago · A lawmaker in Kentucky has introduced legislation that would allow teachers to bring the Ten Commandments into public schools.Morehead Republican Richard White filed the legislation earlier this ...

Jan 1, 2009 · Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), the Supreme Court ruled that a Kentucky law that required the posting of the Ten Commandments on the wall of every public school classroom in the state violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment because the purpose of the display was essentially religious.

2 days ago · FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKRC) – Representative Richard White of Morehead has introduced House Bill 116, a proposal that would permit the reading or posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools ...

Held: A Kentucky statute requiring the posting of a copy of the Ten Commandments, purchased with private contributions, on the wall of each public school classroom in the State has no secular legislative purpose, and therefore is unconstitutional as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. While the state legislature required ...

Twenty-five years ago in a case prompted by posting the Ten Commandments in Kentucky’s public schools, this Court recognized that the Commandments “are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faiths” and held that their display in public classrooms violated the First Amendment’s bar against establishment of religion.

Stone v. Graham, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on November 17, 1980, ruled (5–4) that a Kentucky statute requiring school officials to post a copy of the Ten Commandments (purchased with private contributions) on a wall in every public classroom violated the …

A case in which the Court ruled that a Kentucky statute requiring each public school classroom in the state to include a copy of the Ten Commandments violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.