They are in accordance with the Decalogue (Ten Commandments) given by Moses to the Israelites. This is the Law of God to the Jews. The commandments are also summarised in “Love thy neighbour as thyself”.
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington and Adams, Jefferson
What did President Carter fail to do?
<h2>-- free Americans taken hostage by Iran</h2>
President Jimmy Carter’s failure to get the hostages back ruined his re-election chance in 1980. We might also note that the taking of the hostages was itself an action aimed at President Carter. The Iranian Revolution had ousted the shah of Iran, a US-backed leader. The former shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, living in exile in Mexico, was found to have cancer, President Carter allowed him to come to the United States for treatment. This enraged the Iranians, who thought that the US was perhaps trying to bring the shah back to power. That's when the hostages were taken.
