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The Pledge of Allegiance: A Revised History and Analysis, 1892–2007 (Free State Press, Inc.) ISBN 978-0-9650620-2-2 Excerpt, Chapter Eight: "Under God" and Other Questions About the Pledge. Ellis, Richard J. (2005). To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press) ISBN 0-7006-1372-2
The inventor of the Bellamy salute was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion. [2] Bellamy recalled that Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said, "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag', I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the ...
(For a history of the pledge, see Pledge of Allegiance). In 1954, in response to the perceived threat of secular Communism, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating the 31-word pledge that is recited today. [5] Bellamy described his thoughts as he crafted the language of the pledge:
Each day across America, in classrooms big and small, at city schools and rural ones students recite the pledge of allegiance. Let's go back in time: It's 1892 and Chicago is preparing for the ...
The Court theorized that the Pledge might be constitutional if either the words "under God" inserted in 1954 had, due to the passage of time, lost their religious meaning by 1963, or if one equated a personal public declaration of loyalty with the act of reading a document created by a historical figure—"This general principle might also ...
An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to ... of Germanic origin. The connection with Latin ligare, "to bind," is ... the oath is known as the Pledge of Allegiance.
A parent had complained about LaVallee's lack of patriotism, specifically his refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. LaVallee was fired at the end of the 2018-19 school year.
Reps. Dan Bishop and Deborah Ross find themselves in a heated debate over whether a congressional committee should say the Pledge of Allegiance before meetings.