In 1987, the 200th anniversary of the signing of the U.S.
Constitution, Mike Wilkins, an artist from North Carolina, requested a vanity
license plate from each of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia to
piece together the first lines of a famous document. These license plates mean
very little on their own, but when they are organized alphabetically by state
name and read phonetically with a little creativity, they form the preamble
to the Constitution.
It begins with six plates across the top row, from Alabama
to Colorado: “WE TH P PUL OF TH U NI DIDD ST8S,”
and so on from there.
This wonderfully colorful and creative piece of art can now be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, hanging in an
out-of-the-way hallway by the gift shops.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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