What Is The Escutcheon's Coat Of Arms?
The Government of the United States has its coat of arms, which were created by an Act of Congress of Jun 20, 1782:
The device for an armorial achievement, and reverse, of the great seal of the Unites States in congress assembled, is as follows:
ARMS: Paleways of 13 pieces, argent and gules; a chief, azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in its dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of 13 arrows, all proper, in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto: "E pluribus unum."
For the CREST: over the head of the eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a glory, or, breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding 13 stars, forming a constellation argent on an azure field.
REVERSE: A pyramid …show more content…
In the zenith an eye in a triangle, surrounded by a glory, proper. Over the eye theses words: "Annuit coeptis." On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters, MDCCLXXVI. And underneath, the following motto: "Novus ordo seclorum."
The accompanying text goes on about how "The Escutcheon is composed of the chief and pale, the two most honorable ordinaries. The pieces, paly, represent the several States all joined in one solid compact entire, suppporting a chief, which unites the whole and represents Congress. The Motto alludes to this union. The pales in the Arms are kept closely united by the chief and the chief depends on that Union and the strength resulting from it for its support, to denote the Confederacy of the United States of America and the preservation of their union through Congress. The colours of the pales are those used in the flag of the
The device for an armorial achievement, and reverse, of the great seal of the Unites States in congress assembled, is as follows:
ARMS: Paleways of 13 pieces, argent and gules; a chief, azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in its dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of 13 arrows, all proper, in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto: "E pluribus unum."
For the CREST: over the head of the eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a glory, or, breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding 13 stars, forming a constellation argent on an azure field.
REVERSE: A pyramid …show more content…
In the zenith an eye in a triangle, surrounded by a glory, proper. Over the eye theses words: "Annuit coeptis." On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters, MDCCLXXVI. And underneath, the following motto: "Novus ordo seclorum."
The accompanying text goes on about how "The Escutcheon is composed of the chief and pale, the two most honorable ordinaries. The pieces, paly, represent the several States all joined in one solid compact entire, suppporting a chief, which unites the whole and represents Congress. The Motto alludes to this union. The pales in the Arms are kept closely united by the chief and the chief depends on that Union and the strength resulting from it for its support, to denote the Confederacy of the United States of America and the preservation of their union through Congress. The colours of the pales are those used in the flag of the