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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: "One Nation, Indivisible"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.045745.8146@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 04:57:45 GMT
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- rlc1028@zeus.tamu.edu wrote:
- : In article <ghartzog.32cl@terapin.com>, ghartzog@terapin.com (Garrett Hartzog
- ) writes...
- :
- : |you should also take a look at many of our legal documents. Especially the
- : |Declaration of Independance (written by none other than Thomas Jefferson) wh
- ich
- : |mention God. Look at many of the state constitutions as well. Look at the
- : |pledge of alliegence. Look at our currency ("In God we Trust"). I'm sure you
- 'll
- : |notice one thing that's mentioned repetedly, "God".
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- Look at the U.S. Constitution that makes no reference to any diety except in
- the date.
-
- :
- : This is not to detract fromt he notion that there were
- : G-d-beleivers among the US founders, but the word "God" was added to the
- : pledge of alliegence perhaps a century and an half after the US's founding.
- :
- : It originally ran: "...one nation, indivisible, with liberty and
- : (blah...balh...blah)"
- :
- : Gadson
-
- "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance on 14 June, 1954 and "In
- God We Trust" was made mandatory for currency and coinage on 11 July, 1955.
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- Mike McAngus |You are a fluke of the Universe. You have no
- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org |right to be here, and whether you can hear it
- The Truth is still the Truth |or not the Universe is laughing behind your
- Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
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