It’s not just an executive order; this order is directly referenced by 4 U.S.C. §5. The code isn’t legally binding because that’d violate the First Amendment, but the OP doesn’t conform at all.
I don’t know where the urban myth of “it’s code-compliant as long as there are 50 white stars” came from or how it perpetuates when it’s so easily disproven.
Oh, yeah, you’re completely right. I didn’t bother counting even at a glance because it already fails on the shape and the myth I’ve always seen is that there need only be exactly 50 stars, so I assumed that’s what the OP was going for.
The myth probably comes from back when the star placement wasn’t set in stone. There was the common one of the stars in a circle, but there were many others. Some less official. Especially when it was first being decided, and the description was just writing, there were some wild interpretations.
Fun fact, prior to the stars being adopted, the Grand Union flag was literally just the British East India Company flag. Like, they didn’t even have one made, they took one off a boat and said “this is ours now”
It is not code compliant.
It’s not just an executive order; this order is directly referenced by 4 U.S.C. §5. The code isn’t legally binding because that’d violate the First Amendment, but the OP doesn’t conform at all.
I don’t know where the urban myth of “it’s code-compliant as long as there are 50 white stars” came from or how it perpetuates when it’s so easily disproven.
My bad. Foreigner that acted on a reddit comment without checking first, feel free to point and laugh
There’s 102 stars.
Oh, yeah, you’re completely right. I didn’t bother counting even at a glance because it already fails on the shape and the myth I’ve always seen is that there need only be exactly 50 stars, so I assumed that’s what the OP was going for.
The myth probably comes from back when the star placement wasn’t set in stone. There was the common one of the stars in a circle, but there were many others. Some less official. Especially when it was first being decided, and the description was just writing, there were some wild interpretations.
Fun fact, prior to the stars being adopted, the Grand Union flag was literally just the British East India Company flag. Like, they didn’t even have one made, they took one off a boat and said “this is ours now”