“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
When the Founders created the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they borrowed all three of its sayings from poems attributable to the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE): E pluribus unum (“out of many, one”), Novus ordo seclorum (“a new order of the ages”) and Annuit...