Look on the back of a quarter (or any other coin) and you will see the familiar phrase E Pluribus Unum – the motto for the United States of America. So what does it mean? Literally, “one out of many.” America was formed from a broad range of peoples and ideas to make a unified and centralized nation, an example that endures to this day.
Sine Qua Non is another familiar Latin phrase often encountered in legal writing but also more broadly. Translated literally, it means “without which is nothing”, and is used to describe an essential or intrinsic part of a thing or process without which it would not exist. Freedom is the sine qua non of democracy.
Sine Qua Non is another familiar Latin phrase often encountered in legal writing but also more broadly. Translated literally, it means “without which is nothing”, and is used to describe an essential or intrinsic part of a thing or process without which it would not exist. Freedom is the sine qua non of democracy.
– BBC&B