 While the copies of the Ten Commandments were purchased with private funding, the Court ruled that because they were being placed in public classrooms they were in violation of the First Amendment.The Court held that the Kentucky statute that required the Ten Commandments to be posted in school classrooms was in violation of the First Amendment.To interpret the First Amendment, the Court rested on the precedent established in "Lemon v. Kurtzman" and the three-part "Lemon test".