MAUMELLE, Ark. — In order to avoid a legal storm like the one in Alabama, an Arkansas judge will add other historic documents to a print of the Ten Commandments currently hanging in his courtroom.

Maumelle District Judge David Pake asked for advice from a Virginia-based conservative civil liberties group on how to display the Ten Commandments on a wall of his courtroom, the group said in a news release. Pake confirmed that he had made the changes after consulting with the Rutherford Institute.

"Judge Pake has now incorporated into the courtroom display several other historical documents that have influenced Western law, including the Declaration of Independence, selections from the codes of Hammurabi and Justinian and quotes from British legal scholar Sir William Blackstone," the institute said. "Judge Pake intends to add the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights to the display."

In Alabama, Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building. The 5,300-pound monument was moved from the building's rotunda on Aug. 27.

Yesterday, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley opened an exhibit at the Capitol that included copies of the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights.

The Rutherford Institute said Pake posted the 11-by-14 inch copy of the Ten Commandments in 1994 and received no complaints until August this year, when the head of the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union was quoted in a newspaper story.

"It's a religious display in a state building that's not supposed to be promoting one religion over another, and it should come down," Rita Sklar, the chapter's executive director, said at the time.

Sklar said yesterday she had not contacted Pake nor viewed the display in the courtroom. She would not comment on whether the modified display should be taken down.

Riley's exhibit in Montgomery, Ala., represents a promise he made to supporters of Moore's massive granite monument removed by court order from the state judicial building. A federal judge held that the monument, installed by Moore two years ago, violated the constitution's ban on government promotion of religion.

The plaque was given to Riley by supporters of the 2 1/2-ton Ten Commandments monument.

"Just as the Ten Commandments are exhibited in similar displays in the U.S. Supreme Court and in our nation's Capitol building, I feel it is important to display them in our Capitol, as well," the Republican said in a statement.

Riley and Alabama's attorney general included other historical documents, including the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, in the display to make it more legally defensible than the Moore monument, the governor's spokesman said.

"We want the Ten Commandments to stay in the Capitol, and in order to achieve that goal, we had to hang them in a way that judges in court rulings have instructed," said spokesman David Azbell.

Richard Cohen, attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which sued to have the large monument removed, said the center would wait to see what statements Riley makes about the plaque before deciding whether to sue.

"Teaching history by state officials is not unconstitutional," Cohen said. "Promoting religion is."

Moore said a display like Riley's was unacceptable.

"To put things around the Ten Commandments and secularize it is to deny the greatness of God," he told a crowd of about 1,500 people on Sept. 8 at a fund-raising dinner for his legal defense.

But several monument supporters who visited the new display yesterday said it was satisfactory. "This whole thing is not about the monument in the judicial building, but rather the acknowledgment of God in our public lives," said the Rev. Tom Benz, a Montgomery pastor.

Riley had drawn criticism from Moore and some Moore supporters for not joining Moore in defying the federal court order.