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Roy Moore [1947-0] American

Rank: 102
Judge

Roy Stewart Moore is an American judge and Republican politician. Moore was elected to the position of Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2001, but removed from his position on November 13, 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments commissioned by him from the Alabama Judicial Building despite orders to do so by a federal court.

Government, Knowledge

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No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.		101
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.	Government	102
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.		103
Power's not what the Constitution was about.		104
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.	Knowledge	105
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.		106
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.		107
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.		108
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.		109
But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.		110
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.		111
It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.		112
They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.		113
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.		114
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.		115
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.		116
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.		117
Rights come from God, not from government.		118
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.		119
To do my duty, I must obey God.		120
But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.		121
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.		122
Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.		123
But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.		124
It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.		125
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.		126
Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.		201
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.		202
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.		203
If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.		204

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