On the one hand, the author presents the identified content and functional relations between the contemporary Polish legal order and the Ten Commandments. In this respect, he indicates the binding legal provisions and institutions corresponding to the norms of the Decalogue, he submits the functions that references to the Decalogue have in the justifications of the few judgments, and he presents the role of such references in legal scholarship. On the other hand, he formulates and substantiates a normative thesis
that the Ten Commandments are of constant importance to the lawmaker whenever the law established by him is to be at the service of genuine human freedom. The Decalogue
expresses universal ethical principles, the implementation of which in law protects the dignity of the human person, and not – as it is repeatedly erroneously asserted – threatens the inherent fundamental rights of an individual.