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House votes on reaffirming our Nation's Motto

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jag06 said:
And you would be wrong, President Dwight D Eisenhower signed In God We Trust as our national motto in 1956. US Code, Title 36, section 302 under national motto. http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t33t36+1700+3++(in god we trust)
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CHAPTER 3 - NATIONAL ANTHEM, MOTTO, FLORAL EMBLEM1A\1\ MARCH, AND


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Sec. 302. National motto

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"In God we trust" is the national motto.
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(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 107-293,
Sec. 3(a), Nov. 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 2060.)
 
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MilProGuy said:
CHAPTER 3 - NATIONAL ANTHEM, MOTTO, FLORAL EMBLEM1A\1\ MARCH, AND


TREE

-HEAD-
Sec. 302. National motto

-STATUTE-
"In God we trust" is the national motto.
-SOURCE-
(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 107-293,
Sec. 3(a), Nov. 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 2060.)
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Why don't you look in an important place like the Great Seal of the United States? See what it says there. National mottos and things of great importance shouldn't be changed so easily as passing a simple majority vote. I don't think the national motto was truly ever changed because the Great Seal was never changed.
 
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Booooo! I'm with the other guy that said this is grandstanding and a waste of time. This was adopted first in 1956 and NOT at founding. Showed up on coins in 1864 and paper currency in 1957.
 
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Daylen said:
Why don't you look in an important place like the Great Seal of the United States? See what it says there. National mottos and things of great importance shouldn't be changed so easily as passing a simple majority vote. I don't think the national motto was truly ever changed because the Great Seal was never changed.
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You have been given a reference in the US Code that says In God We Trust is the national motto of the USA. If you think it is something else, feel free to find a different reference in the US Code.

Just having some words on a Seal doesn't make that the motto of the USA, after all, there are 2 other phrases on the Great Seal, "Annuit Coeptis" and "Novus Ordo Seclorum". Would you argue that there are 3 national mottos?
 
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thebigsd said:
I'm 99% sure he was being sarcastic...
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And you are correct.

The sarcasm was directed (totally) at the fellow who thinks we have 57 states and whose White House staff doesn't know the difference between Wyoming and Colorado.
 
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