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36 United States Code Section 302 - National Motto

   36 USC Sec. 302                                             01/03/2007


    TITLE 36 - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND
                ORGANIZATIONS                       
    Subtitle I - Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies
    Part A - Observances and Ceremonies
    CHAPTER 3 - NATIONAL ANTHEM, MOTTO, FLORAL EMBLEM1A\1\ MARCH, AND
                 TREE                              

    Sec. 302. National motto

      "In God we trust" is the national motto.

    (Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 107-293,
    Sec. 3(a), Nov. 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 2060.)



                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
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      Revised       Source (U.S. Code)       Source (Statutes at Large) 
      Section                                                           
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    302            36:186.                 July 30, 1956, ch. 795, 70   
                                            Stat. 732.                  
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                                AMENDMENTS                            
      2002 - Pub. L. 107-293 reenacted section catchline and text
    without change.

                         REAFFIRMATION OF LANGUAGE                     
      Pub. L. 107-293, Sec. 3(b), Nov. 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 2061,
    provided that: "In codifying this subsection [probably should be
    "section", meaning section 3 of Pub. L. 107-293, which amended this
    section], the Office of the Law Revision Counsel shall make no
    change in section 302, title 36, United States Code, but shall show
    in the historical and statutory notes that the 107th Congress
    reaffirmed the exact language that has appeared in the Motto for
    decades."