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  2. Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with the new word allegiance, I first decided that 'pledge' was a better school word than 'vow' or 'swear'; and that the first person singular should be used, and that 'my' flag was preferable to 'the. ' " [27] Bellamy considered the words "country, nation, or Republic," choosing the last as "it distinguished the form of government ...

  3. Criticism of the Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia

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    Alexandre, No. 05-81142 (S.D. Fla. May 31, 2006), "A federal district court in Florida ruled that a 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, even though the law allows students to opt out, because they can only do so with written ...

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  5. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  6. Do you swear too much at work? Where is the line? - AOL

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    Swearing is a bit of a risk, and doing so makes us vulnerable; it might signal to the people around us that we trust them enough to bend the rules in their presence (of course, this is tied up in ...

  7. Why all federal and state officials must swear an oath to ...

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    This is why we Americans call our highest federal court the Supreme Court. There is no appeal from a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. There is no appeal from a decision of the ...

  8. Oath of Allegiance (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A USCIS official administering the Oath of Allegiance to a group of U.S. servicemembers during a naturalization ceremony at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan U.S. military personnel taking and subscribing to the Oath of Allegiance at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, in 2010 Lawful immigrants taking and subscribing to the Oath of Allegiance at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona ...

  9. Thomas Jefferson and education - Wikipedia

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    Each district would have a primary school and a tutor who is supported by a tax on the people of the district. Every family in the district would be entitled to send their children to the school for three years, free of charge. [17] [20] A family could continue sending a child after three years, but the family would have to pay for it.