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Pledge Of Allegiance Case Study

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My research will be on the case law of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. I will discuss how the pledge was created through the constitution and changed over time, US presidency, government involvement in public school systems, and legal cases presented through the Supreme Court of Justice that’s made an impact to the recitation of the Pledge since it was founded. Francis Bellamy wrote the original “pledge” (Baer1). He wanted to conjoin together government, politics ,and religion(2). Not only wanting to change the role of things he mainly was striving for equality(2). There of course was racial segregation during the late 1800’s to the early 1900 's. The pledge was published On the”Youth’s Companion”,which was at the

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