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• The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 25, June 20, 2004, Article 10
  

  "IN GOD WE TRUST" WINS A BATTLE
  

  On June 14th (Flag Day) the U.S. Supreme Court voted to
  reverse a lower court's ruling which would have removed the
  phrase "one nation, under God" from the Pledge of
  Allegiance. Their ruling was based on a technicality and
  left open the possibility of a future case. The issue relates
  to numismatics because it could ultimately affect the fate of
  the motto "In God We Trust" on U.S coins and currency.
  

  A Wall Street Journal article noted: "Congress adopted the
  pledge as a national patriotic tribute in 1942, at the height of
  World War II. Congress added the phrase "under God" more
  than a decade later, in 1954, when the world had moved from
  hot war to cold."
  

  QUICK QUIZ: "In God We Trust" has been on coinage far
  longer. Who was the person who first suggested the slogan,
  and when? And here's a bonus question for hard-core
  bibliophiles: in what publication was this fact first documented?
  -Editor]
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v07n25a10.html

Date published

• 2004-06-20

Volume

• 7

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