Copied and pasted from my comment on Yahoo Answers, regarding the Pledge of Allegiance: One would think that an American citizen would feel more proud saying the second phrase without the recently added comas, as in "indivisible with liberty and justice for all." It means, and was intended to mean when congress approved it, that the existent federal republic is indivisible with liberty and justice. To argue that the states themselves are indivisible from the union would be a preposterous notion for the man who wrote the pledge, even though secession was a rarely discussed topic in the aftermath of a recent civil war. This country owes its existence to separating from a governing body that sought to burden these states with absurd taxation. The sovereign states united to work together under a limited federal government with a clear understanding that entering the union was entirely voluntary and leaving it would be a non-issue. To recite the Pledge of Allegiance with the meaning of unity implied is entirely erroneous and is an insult to the intent of the founding fathers.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:23:41 +0000
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