. The founders rejected it. I guess they thought it was too monarchist or something. But since the Great Seal of the United States is horrid, I decided to make a modern version. The central escutcheon shows all the countries out of which America was peopled listed alphabetically from Afghanistan to Wales. Surrounding that are the escutcheons of the states going clockwise and outward in alphabetical order from Alabama to Wyoming, with America's inhabited territories and federal district on the wings. Instead of the original scantily clad Lady Liberty and a soldier who shot his own hat, I used two fasces bound up with the stars and stripes and tied up with liberty poles as supporters.



Hope you all enjoy it. I'm now going away to pray that I never have to upload an image this obscenely huge ever again.

When Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin went to a professional herald to get a coat of arms for the new republic designed, he came up with this