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The unfinished aspect of the pyramid suggests there is room for other states to be added to the nation. I wonder if our Founders envisioned another thirty-seven states? What could this possibly symbolize? Yes, our Founders felt God had established a new order for the ages and that the Coat of Arms should reflect this most noteworthy characteristic of our nation.
Further Insights. Why did William Barton and Charles Thomson choose these symbols of the pyramid, eagle, etc? While our answer cannot be definitive, much can be surmised from the historical record. Our Founders were strongly religious and Bible students. Therefore, could it be a coincidence that our national Seal contains a pyramid, foremost monument of Egypt, an eagle, golden radiance or sunburst, and a cloud?
All these symbols were integral to the Red Sea episode. The Israelites were protected by God by a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day Exodus Remember the scene in the movie The Ten Commandments where the pillar of fire held back the Egyptians until the Israelites could proceed to cross the Red Sea?
The account is in Exodus Summary and Conclusion. So, there you have it, the plain meaning and significance of our Great Seal. Can you find them all? As a nation we always prefer peace to war as revealed in the olive branch and arrows.
These interpretations of the arms are very ingenious. Unfortunately, they collapse when confronted with some basic facts:. In summary, for explanations of the arms that depend so heavily on complicated mathematics, these simply don't add up. Winthrop W. Aldrich, at the time American ambassador to the Court of St. James, gave new life to this old myth in a speech he gave at the Washington ancestral home in England in "Who cannot resist the conjecture that here at Washington Old Hall is the true origin of the 'Stars and Stripes' and the Great Seal of the United States Government?
Unfortunately, there is not a shred of evidence that the one had anything to do with the other. Washington was not involved with the committee that designed the flag in , and in heraldic terms there is very little connection between the two designs.
Moreover, the sequence by which the flag evolved belies any influence of the Washington arms. Nor was he involved with the committee that designed the great seal and coat of arms in The design of the shield in the national arms, with vertical stripes "pallets" and no stars, bears no heraldic resemblance whatever to the Washington bearings. Finally, nowhere in the records of any of the committees involved with the flag or the arms is there any indication of a desire to honor Washington with the flag or the arms, honors which it would have been quite out of character for Washington to accept in any case, considering how he reacted to other attempts to create a cult of personality around him.
An organization called the Belcher Foundation has assiduously promoted the theory, but without any real evidence to support it, that the shield of the national arms was derived from that of Jonathan Belcher Belcher served as colonial governor, at various times, of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and, for the last decade of his life, New Jersey, where he used a seal of his arms to authenticate his signature on certain official documents.
It is true that Belcher's arms, Or three pallets Gules a chief Vair, have the same basic format of vertical stripes and a chief as the shield of the United States arms, but that is also true of many other completely unrelated bearings. Beyond that superficial resemblance, Belcher partisans rely on unproven speculation about remote personal associations between Belcher and various figures associated with the design of the national arms.
For example, they point out that Charles Thomson, the secretary of Congress who came up with the design of the supporter and crest of the arms, had taught at the academy in Philadelphia founded by Benjamin Franklin, who apparently had known Belcher at the time. Of course, this would have been 25 or more years before the U.
In short, as in the case of the theory about the influence of the Washington arms on those of the United States, there's not a shred of evidence to support this one, either. Richard Amerike ap Meryk was a shipowner of Welsh descent active in fishing and trading voyages out of Bristol, England, in the late 15th century. In the s, his name was found on various documents connected with the voyages of the explorer John Cabot. The uncanny resemblance between Amerike's name and the word "America" led in to the proposal that America had actually been named for him rather than for the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci, as is generally believed.
While most historians give little credence to this theory, Amerike's partisans go further and state flatly as Peter MacDonald has written on no less than the BBC's website that the U.
Indeed, since Richard Amerike had been long since forgotten by , and wouldn't be rediscovered until almost years after the U. This emblem represents a heraldic eagle, with an olive branch on its right, and a bundle of lightning bolts on its left.
The olive branch was the traditional biblical symbol of peace; the bolts corresponded to the classical representation of the Graeco-Roman Zeus Jupiter , who punished with his lightning and who had the eagle as his animal attribute. In doing so, he was probably following the example of the coat of arms of the Republic of the United Netherlands Fig.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch lion held in its left claw 7 arrows, symbolising the 7 United Provinces. Since classical antiquity, the bundling of arrows or other objects has been the symbol of unity: an individual arrow is weak and can be easily broken; the bundle as a whole is strong and unbreakable. However, the enthusiasm for the bald eagle was not shared by all.
Franklin wrote to his daughter Sarah, tongue-in-cheek:. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly.
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