Here we go again -The Pledge, The Bill of Rights and interpretation

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, rvotaw at i... wrote:
> > Anna wrote:
 
> > But we don't discontinue the pledge in the entire class because 
of 
> > it.  HP can work the same way, you don't believe it's appropriate
> > for your child, fine.  But don't take it away from all the others 
> > who want to read it.
> > 
> > Richelle
> > 
> 
> bboy_mn:
> Final Version-
> I pledge allegiance to the Flag
> /of the United States(2)/ /of America(3)/
> and /to(1)/ the Republic for which it stands,
> one nation /under God(4)/, indivisible,
> with liberty and justice for all."
> 
> (1) 1892 added "to"
> (2) 1923 added "of the United States"
> (3) 1924 added "of America"
> (4) 1954 added "under God"
> 
> 
> 
> Let see now, do I have a point?
> 
> I guess one point is that few things are so sacred as to be 
immutable
> and not subject to interpretation. The one exception to that, at 
least
> for me, would be the Bill of Rights.
> 

Interpreting the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, is 
precisely what is done by the U.S. Supreme Court every term.  It is 
how we keep the words in that document alive.  We do not merely pay 
lip-service to them.

It is just such constitutional questions as how to deal with the 
Pledge of Allegiance that is the purview of our Supreme Court.

-Haggridd
Haggridd 
> bboy_mn