Framing aspiration with the Cause of Democracy --- The framing device of the shared aspiration is represented throughout. I selected this initial framing using the text of “the cause of democracy” as representative of the theme.

Presented towards the beginning it is reinforced throughout. It is positive and inclusive, and I think it complements his repeated aspirational appeal to unity.

A rhetorical foundation of US democracy is the phrase “E Pluribus Unum” – This motto proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson in 1776.

A Latin phrase meaning "One from many," the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination for unity and to form a single nation from a collection of states and its people.

Source author: John D. Hipsley jhipsley@igc.org