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America, We The People

Louisiana State Judicial Poem

Live Oak Drive in Louisiana; photo by photo by Nate Healy on Flickr (noncommercial use permitted with attribution / share alike).

America, We The People

by Sylvia Davidson Lott Buckley

Louisiana designated America, We the People, by Sylvia Davidson Lott Buckley as the official state judicial poem in 1995:

America
We the people
Justice, the word most sought by all, seek God to bless the courts with truth, for through His wisdom we rise or fall.

America
We the people
Do honor this great lady fair, who with her mighty arms still holds, the scales of Justice for all to share.

America
We the people
Do offer threads of hope to all, for Justice covers everyone; she does not measure, short or tall.

America
We the peopleBoldly make this pledge to thee, that Justice will, in mind and heart, guide each destiny.

America
We............the...........people.