A courthouse display featuring the Ten Commandments can stay, a federal judge ruled, rejecting arguments that it endorses religion in violation of the constitution.The "Foundations of American Law and Government" exhibit at the little-used Rowan County Fiscal Court in the rural, eastern Kentucky town of...

Examines the three main documents that helped America pave the way for democracy, freedom, unity, and the basic values our country is based on today, the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders and the New England Confederation.

The Mayflower Compact, the New Fundamental Orders, and the New England Confederation are all important documents in the founding of the American colonies and, eventually, the colonies' independence from England. The Mayflower Compact was the first written document in America to provide for self-government. The New Fundamental Orders established a democratic government, in which all freemen were able to vote. And the New England Confederation successfully unified the northern colonies against a common foe wi