PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Definition & Meaning

Pledge of Allegiance

noun

a solemn oath of allegiance or fidelity to the U.S., beginning, “I pledge allegiance to the flag,” and forming part of many flag-saluting ceremonies in the U.S.

Pledge of Allegiance

Also called the “Pledge to the Flag.” The American patriotic vow, which is often recited at formal government ceremonies, including Independence Day ceremonies for new citizens: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

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Notes

The phrase under God , added in 1954 (more than sixty years after the pledge was originally published), has inspired heated debate over the separation of church and state .

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The choir is best known for a recording that features the men singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” interspersed with clips of Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

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At the camp, his elementary school classrooms were in converted barracks, where the children stood every day to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Too-cool-for-school upper-class students at Santa Monica High scoffed when administrators in 2002 reinstated a daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance.

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Constitution, Bill of Rights, Pledge of Allegiance, and Declaration of Independence inserted, “bound in leather or leather-like material for durability.”

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I protested the Vietnam War and refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance because the United States hadn’t yet achieved “liberty and justice for all.”

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