They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of animalism to seven commandments. these seven commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on animal farm must live for ever after. –animal farm, george orwell what does the name seven commandments suggest about the new laws? that they are based on commandments of the constitution of the united states that they are replacing the religious laws known as the ten commandments that they are the same as the commandments of the communist manifesto by marx that these commandments will be enforced with punishment for those who break them