United States Motto:
“e pluribus unum”
out of many, one since 1776
Replaced in 1956 by Eisenhower to become:
“In God We Trust”
A violation of Separation between Church and State?
“In Zorach v. Clauson (1952), the Supreme Court also wrote that the nation’s “institutions presuppose a Supreme Being” and that government recognition of God does not constitute the establishment of a state church as the Constitution’s authors intended to prohibit.”