The Pledge of Allegiance: A Reading

Political Animal Magazine (2017)
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Abstract

In the Pledge of Allegiance we pledge our loyalty, not to the United States as it may exist at any particular moment, but to the flag and what it represents: an ideal United States that maintains "liberty and justice for all." When we say the Pledge we commit ourselves to this ideal, and to the ongoing struggle of bringing our actual nation into alignment with it.

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Richard Oxenberg
Emory University (PhD)

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