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I Pledge Allegiance -

"I Promise to be faithful and true (Promise my loyalty)"

to the flag -

"to the emblem that stands for and represents"

of the United States -

"all 50 states, each of them individual, and individually represented on the flag"

of America -

"yet formed into a UNION of one Nation."

and to the Republic -

"And I also pledge my loyalty to the Government that is itself a Republic, a form of government where the PEOPLE are sovereign,"

for which it stands, -

"this government also being represented by the Flag to which I promise loyalty."

one Nation under God, -

"These 50 individual states are united as a single Republic under the Divine providence of God, "our most powerful resource" (according to the words of President Eisenhower)"

Indivisible, -

and can not be separated. (This part of the original version of the pledge was written just 50 years after the

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