“One nation under god is Unconstitutional”

Over the last couple of years, the West Coast federal district court issued an injunction prohibiting the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase “ one nation under God”, in it. Based on the facts that I have researched, I have come to agree with the court’s decision, the main reason in the United States constitution, it’s unconstitutional.

Baptist minister wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, by the name of Francis Bellamy in 1892. He was a Christian Socialist, so he influenced most of the pledge from his first cousin Edward Bellamy. Edward Bellemy was an author of American socialist utopian novels. The pledge was published in the September 8th issue a The Youth's Companion, the family magazine and the Reader's Digest In the National Education Association in 1892, Francis Bellamy was also a chairman of the committee of the state superintendents of education. As its chairman, he prepared the program for the public schools' quadricentennial celebration for Columbus Day in 1892. He structured this public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute - his 'Pledge of Allegiance.'

giance was saddled with the phrase “ one nation under God” added by a congressman in 1954. This was added toward only the irritation of some loyal citizens and parents of school children who weren’t particularly religious, which only made up about ten percent of the population.

We also can compare it to the controversy in 1962 in the Supreme Court. The case “Engel vs. Vitale”, dealt with the establishment clause. The New York State Board of Regents approved prayer. The court decision ruled the prayer also to be unconstitutional because a prayer is a form of religious practice. Practice of any type of religion in public schools is not allowed on school property. To authorize a period of silence for meditation or voluntary prayer and to teach the theory of evolution or biblical creationism as a science is also unconstitutional. In the Pledge of Allegiance case, it is similar to the Engel v. Vitale in which both cases deal with religious outlooks that are unconstitutional to the United States Constitution.

These Founding Fathers clearly did not intend for “divine law” to be the supreme law of our land. Article six of the United States Constitution states that” This constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby; any thing Constitution or laws of any state to the Contrary

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