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September 14, 2005

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Darleen

Your second diagram only works if you assume Nation = Government. However, as the yet another national moto observes, "e pluribus unum" -->"From Many One", Nation refers to the People. In essense, the Pledge has almost nothing to do with Government and everything to do with the rights of The People aka The Nation which dedicates itself to living as a Republic.

The Pledge is but a reitterance of Jefferson's appeal to an Authority from which inherent rights flow, rights of man that men cannot usurp.

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