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One Nation Under god is Unconstitutional

ONE NATION UNDER GOD IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL


Dr. Manikas
American Government
April 1, 2003


Matthew J Coffee
Dr. Manikas
American Government
April 1, 2003
“One nation under god is Unconstitutional”

Over the last couple of years, the West Coast federal district court issued an injunction prohibiting the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase “ one nation under God”, in it. Based on the facts that I have researched, I have come to agree with the court’s decision, the main reason in the United States constitution, it’s unconstitutional.
Baptist minister wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, by the name of Francis Bellamy in 1892. He was a Christian Socialist, so he influenced most of the pledge from his first cousin Edward Bellamy. Edward Bellemy was an author of American socialist utopian novels. The pledge was published in the September 8th issue a The Youth's Companion, the family magazine and the Reader's Digest In the National Educ...

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