:|Hotel Charlie One wrote:
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:|> I still haven't seen you admit the "E Pluribus Unum" *was* the
:|> nation'a motto before it was changed to "In God We Trust".
:|
:|E Pluribus Unum was never the national motto. It was one of three
:|mottos that was included on the Seal of the United States adopted in
:|1782.
:|
:|The other two mottos that share the distinction are
:|
:|Annuit Coeptis="God has favored our beginning"
:|
:|and
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:|Novus Ordo Seclorum="A New Order of the Ages"
:|
:|It is just as wrongheaded to state that Annuit Coeptis was the national
:|motto before In God We Trust became it.
:|
:|The fact that E Pluribus Unum was NEVER the national motto was clearly
:|stated by Congress in 1956. The House of Representatives reported, "at
:|the present the United States has no national motto."
:|
:|Source: Congressional Record: House Report, 84th Congress, 1959 (1956),
:|p. 1.
:|
:|I trust that you will do as you expect others to do and "admit" your
:|error.