Before “In God We Trust,” this nation’s motto was “E Pluribus Unum.” What was wrong with that? It seems to fit America very well. “E Pluribus Unum” was the motto proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. A Latin phrase meaning “One, from many,” the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states.
If we’re going to plaster words on government buildings, make them something everyone can believe in.
Charlotte Lewis
Vancouver
