In God We Trust

I think bumper stickers in general serve little purpose other than to attract scorn and contempt from those that do not agree. Or crashes into the rear bumper from those that do not have good eyesight.

On this occasion, I was stopped at a traffic light when I came across the following:

"Everyone of the 50 states constitutions mention God"

Now, I'm sorry, but the only argument I can deduce from the above statement is that which mourns the failure of the American education system.

I mean, seriously, I wasn't even aware that one could possibly pack in so many grammatical mistakes in a single sentence, per word. With three mistakes in eight words, that would mean 37.5% of the sentence is incorrect. This, then, can hardly be considered English at all.

The sentence can be made gramatically correct as follows:

"Every one of the 50 states, 'constitutions mention God'"

In other words, there is a group of fifty people, and all of its members agree that in general, constitutions mention God. However, I have a feeling that this is not the intended message.

What the author intended to say, I imagine, is "Each of the 50 states' constitutions mentions God." The message, though, is still unclear.

Is this bumper sticker saying God exists because the state constitutions mention God? Or is it making a point that the word should be removed from all of the constitutions in order to achieve separation of church and state? Perhaps it is an observation with no intent of advocating anything. Like, "each of the 50 states' constitutions is a constitution" or "the wheels on the bus go round and round."

Ceci n'est pas un bumpre-stickre.