The Relief Portraits of Lawgivers
Who is in the portrait that faces forward?
Who is Moses?
What law did Napoleon Bonaparte represent?
What is French Law?
How many relief portraits are there in total?
What are 23 relief portraits?
The first ten laws in the Book of Exodus
What is the Ten Commandments?
When did the Cold War take place?
What is between 1945 and 1991?
or
The Cold War was happening at the same time that the relief portraits went up
What is in the center of the southern wall, above the Speaker's chair, in the House of Representatives Chamber?
(The direct opposite of Moses)
What is the Webster Quotation?
What state in America uses mainly French Law, which is derived from the Napoleonic Code.
What is Louisiana?
What university did William Blackstone attend and teach at?
What is Oxford University?
Also known as the first five books of the Bible, Moses wrote
What are the Mosaic Laws?
What is the Torah?
What is the Pentateuch?
What are the Five Books of Moses?
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
Who is Joseph Stalin?
When were the relief portraits installed and why?
What is the Remodeling of the House Chamber?
or
When was 1949-1950?
What type of Law did William Blackstone focus on?
What is British Common Law?
Where are the relief portraits located?
What is the House of Representatives Chamber?
or
What is Washington, D.C.?
What is important about Mose's portrait summary?
It notes how he transformed a wandering people into a nation
or
It notes how he received the Ten Commandments.
What type of government was the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin?
What is Dictatorship?
or
What is Communism?
What was in the House of Representatives that caused the remodel to happen?
What is a stained-glass skylight?
or
What are State Seals?
What Code did Napolean write that was a combination of French tradition and Roman law.
(It is still used today by France and is amended by the legislature periodically)
What is the Napoleonic Code?
Name three people that are included in the Relief Portraits of Lawgivers
What is:
Alfonso X
Edward I
Gaius
George Mason
Gregory IX
Hammurabi
Hugo Grotius
Innocent III
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Justinian I
Lycurgus Maimonides
Moses
Napoleon I
Papinian
Robert Joseph Pothier
Saint Louis
Simon de Montfort
Solon
Suleiman
Thomas Jefferson
Tribonian
Sir William Blackstone
Where is Moses recognized again by the government in the form of marble friezes?
(In it, he holds the two tablets of the Ten Commandments)
What is the Supreme Court?
What did the Soviet Union embrace that made America have to go through a "cultural shift?"
What is the Soviet Union embraced atheism?
How big are the portraits and what are they made of?
What is made from white Vermont marble?
or
What is 28 inches in diameter?
What were the laws that William Blackstone wrote?
(Had considerable influence on the importation and adaptation of English common law in America.)
What were the "Commentaries on the Laws of England"?
Name the first five books of the Bible
What is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
Name one of the commandments that correlates with the American Legal System.
What is the Sixth Commandment, the Eighth Commandment, or the Ninth Commandment.
6th = speaks of how you shall not murder.
8th = says how you shall not steal
9th = tells of how you shall not give false testimony against your neighbor
What is one way America refocused the government and country on religion?
What is the motto change from "E Pluribus Unum" to "In God We Trust?"
or
What was adding the motto to the currency in 1956?
or
What is the installation of the relief portraits?