I want it there to stay, just need a school question answered.
2006-11-04 12:53:21 · 14 answers · asked by Oh Tami !! 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Thanks everyone!
2006-11-04 13:02:56 · update #1
Congress passed the legislation to add the phrase "under God" to the Pledge on June 14, 1954. It had already been under suggestion for a few years by that point.
It was not the first revision to the Pledge. The original Pledge, written by a Baptist minister, first started as "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
2006-11-04 12:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mary K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
June 1954
2006-11-04 13:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1954
2006-11-04 12:57:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
1954
2006-11-04 12:56:22 · answer #4 · answered by Gerty 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1954.
It should have been declared unconstitutional then. It turned the pledge into a prayer.
It also took the beautiful phrase "one nation indivisible" and divided it.
And it divided our "indivisible" nation into two groups ... believers in God who could still recite the pledge with sincerity, and non-believers who could no longer, in sincerity, recite the pledge.
In other words, it says "you can't be a loyal American unless you believe in God."
If that's not a violation of the establishment of religion clause of the 1st Amendment, then I don't know what is.
2006-11-04 18:16:23 · answer #5 · answered by c_sense_101 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our u . s . a .'s foundational suggestions have been greater Masonic than Christian. Our national motto was once 'e pluribus unum', until eventually now Christian Nationalists desperate it promoted too a lot variety. the recent one revealed on all of our forex no longer basically mixes sectarian faith with politics, yet renders faith indistinguishable from commerce. if that they had a shred of honesty, presidential pics on paper money could be replaced with a twin of a golden calf.
2016-10-15 09:32:57 · answer #6 · answered by lithgow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1954. Read the story below.
2006-11-04 12:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
1954.
It was a campaign from the Knights of Columbus which led to Congress to change it...
2006-11-04 13:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by kaliselenite 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the 1950's.
It's kind of odd that it wasn't already there before that, tho'. .
but it was done in the 50's as a show to communists that here in the West we believe in God and aren't afraid to say so.
2006-11-04 13:08:40 · answer #9 · answered by Wayne A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During the Cold War under Eishenhower. I refuse to say it and go right from One nation, ...to ' indivisible" the way it used to be.
2006-11-04 14:07:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋