Word: pledgees
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It is hard to imagine the Founding Fathers being concerned with the pledge at all, since it was written 116 years after they penned the Declaration of Independence. The original 22 words of the Pledge of Allegiance were drawn up in 1892 as a promotional vehicle for a Boston magazine...
The pledge caught on, and by World War I it was routinely recited in public schools. In 1924 the words "my flag" were amended to "the flag of the United States of America." The formal stiff-arm salute was discontinued in 1942 by an act of Congress; its similarity to...
Although the pledge has seeped into the popular imagination as a paean to patriotism, religious groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, who are forbidden to swear secular oaths, have repeatedly gone to court to keep it from becoming a mandatory ritual. In 1972 a federal appeals court ruled that an...
Kaufman's argument no doubt appeals to Dukakis' belief in what the Founding Fathers stood for, as well as his sense of legal nicety. But Bush's aides believe they have struck a vein of patriotic gold with the issue. "It's a winner for us," says Chief of Staff...
NATION: Bush and Dukakis battle over the Pledge of Allegiance