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In 2001, following through on a campaign promise, Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court unveiled a sculpture that is striking both in size and content. Placed in a prominent location inside the rotunda of the state judicial building, the monument, weighing in at over two tons, featured two tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. At its unveiling, Moore noted: "The institutions of our society are founded on the belief that there is an authority higher than the authority of the State; that there is a moral law which the State is powerless to alter: that the individual possesses rights, conferred by the Creator, which government must respect." The monument ...