Louisiana [US], June 20 (HBTV): All public schools in the southeastern US state of Louisiana are now required to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom after Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed the requirement into law on Wednesday, reported CNN.

Opponents of the bill argue that a state requiring a religious text in all classrooms would violate the establishment clause of the US Constitution, which highlights that Congress can "make no law respecting an establishment of religion." 

House Bill 71, approved by state lawmakers the previous month, mandates that a poster-size display of the Ten Commandments with "large, easily readable font" be in every classroom at schools that receive state funding, from kindergarten through the university level.

The legislation further specified the exact language in which the commandments must be printed on the classroom display and outlined that the text of the Commandments must be the central focus of the poster or framed document, as reported by CNN.

Before signing it, Republican Gov Jeff Landry called the bill, "one of (his) favourites."

‘If you want to respect the rule of law, you got to start from the original law given which was Moses. ... He got his commandments from God,’ Landry said.

During the bill signing, Louisiana state Rep. Dodie Horton, the Republican author of the bill, said that "it's like hope is in the air everywhere."

Horton further dismissed concerns from Democratic opponents of the measure and said that the Ten Commandments are rooted in legal history and her bill would place a "moral code" in the classroom, as reported by CNN.

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