Monday, July 04, 2005

An improved pledge

Here's a suggestion:

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the democracy for which it stands, a nation with freedom and justice for all.

Happy Independence Day!
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not to quibble, but the United States isn't a democracy, never has been. It's a republic, with a representative form of government. Pure democracy lost its luster in ancient Athens, when the vote of the citizenry became mob rule that forced Socrates to drink the hemlock.

12:19 PM
Alna Dem said...

sounds pretty quibbly to me, but you're right. I was thinking "democracy" in the metaphoric sense, as in "wouldn't it be nice if we stood up for democracy here the way we talk about doing it everywhere else?"

9:38 PM

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