Analysis Of The Pledge Of Allegiance

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Francis Bellamy produced The Pledge of Allegiance In the year of August 1892 and President Eisenhower, in 1954 and Congress added the phrase under God into the Pledge of Allegiance. 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," forming the 31-word pledge.
However, their many people are against because they don't believe or does stand for flag and falling that protect and never came home. Which guide into a lawsuit of pledge allegiance Michael Newdow was the issue that his daughter was reciting pledge allegiance with the reference under California. Elk Grove educators start school ever days through leading students in a voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance,
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The court also held that Newdow right as a parent to question the custom that conflicts, including his right to teach his daughter about spiritual education. Therefore, Elk Grove Unified School District appealed to the decision United States Supreme Court on Apr. 30, 2003. The Supreme Court awarded the School District's appeal petition to examine a couple of questions beginning with Newdow acting as a noncustodial father to dispute the School District's pledge policy and the second did the administration produced a violation of the First Amendment. Although after losing the June 14, 2004, US Supreme Court Trial, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow v. Congress by an 8-0 vote 5-3 on standing …show more content…
Sandra Banning, the mother of Newdow, daughter, filed a motion for permission to intervene, or to deny the charge. Declared that although Newdow was granted ten hours monthly with his daughter. Sandra, in the state-court, gave her sole legal guardianship of the child, covering the full right to represent her daughter in all legal matters and make all choice regarding her education and welfare. Sandra believes in God and possesses neither objection citing or hearing others recite the Pledge of Allegiance or to its reference to God. Forbidding expressed the belief that her daughter would do harm if the litigation were permitted to proceed, therefore when the Supreme Court

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