From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 11:34:56 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Fortunately the constitutionality of a practice is not subject
> to a vote of the US Senate. The addition of the "under God" in
> the pledge and the "in God we Trust" on money is quite fairly
> recent - 1950s for the latter.
I assume you mean "for the former". The latter dates to an act of Congress of
April 22, 1864; IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.
There was a later Coinage Act of February 12, 1873 that explicitly mentions
this motto. Source: US Treasury fact sheet OPC-11.
> They could then ask them whether they believe they are elected
> to grandstand "gee whiz" positions rather than to do the jobs
> that are really theirs. That should be followed up with asking
> what they are doing to actually protect our freedoms, especially
> in the wake of 911 hysteria.
No kidding.
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I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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