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The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
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.
This, the current offical version of the Pledge of Allegiance, has
developed from the original pledge, which was first published in the
September 8, 1892 issue of the Youth's Companion, a weekly magazine
then published in Boston. The original pledge contained the phrase
"My Flag" which was changed more than 30 years later to "Flag of the
United States of America. An act of Congress in 1954 added the words
"Under God."
The authorship of the pledge had been in dispute for many years.
The Youth's Companion stated in 1917 that the original draft was
written by James B. Upham, an executive of the magazine who died in 1910.
A leaflet circulated by the magazine later named Upham as the originator
of the draft "afterwards condensed and perfected by him and his
associates of the Companion Force".
Francis Bellamy, a former member of the Youth's Companion editorial staff,
publicly claimed authorship of the pledge in 1923. The United States Flag
Assn., acting on the advice of a committee named to study the controversy,
upheld in 1939 the claim of Bellamy, who had died 8 years earlier.
The Library of congress issued in 1957 a report attributing the author-
ship to Bellamy.