Allegiance To The Flag Analysis

I pledge Allegiance to the flag/of the United States of America/and to the Republic for which it stands, /one nation under God, indivisible, /with Liberty and Justice for all. While this was created over 100 years after the American Revolution, the Pledge of Allegiance rings loud for those who do and do not have the freedoms that are part of the United States Constitution, which was originally ratified in 1788. During that time, there were two distinct groups that were lobbying for their freedoms. There were poor men and non-Protestant men that wanted to feel as if they were a part of the equality that the constitution and the Declaration of Independence from 1776 proclaimed. Those that could not make ends meet, were less successful in safe guarding their own ‘revolution’ than those that dealt with religion.
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Massachusetts seems to be the most vocal of states. Massachusetts’ Declaration of Rights stated that “Whereas the happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of civil government essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality” while the people of Massachusetts think differently. In a response to the declaration of rights, and specifically to the idea that the government should rely on religion, the citizens gave the argument that governments have been in the world long before Christianity had been in it, and it should not be a required that Christianity is a part of government. The citizens go on to attack the declaration of rights essentially saying it is too permissive in regards to ways that those of non-Protestant or dissenters would be able to prevent oppression. Their most important point assessed the possibility of a religious official also being a government official, being so against it that they are alarmed and that “[t]his is a dangerous part of the