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To: Para-Ord.45

Using the pledge to answer a Constitutional question should get someone impeached.

2 posted on 02/17/2010 9:29:43 AM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)

To: GeronL

I think Scalia would look at your comment, scratch his head, and declare that “the Civil War was not about the Pledge of Allegiance.”

10 posted on 02/17/2010 9:37:59 AM PST by 1rudeboy

To: GeronL

Using the pledge to answer a Constitutional question should get someone impeached.

Why? It was just an allusion, not recital of the law that he was basing his opinion upon.

14 posted on 02/17/2010 9:42:22 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)

To: GeronL

Do you think he was using that as a formal arguement, or maybe just trying to make a point to a screenwriter?

29 posted on 02/17/2010 9:47:48 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)

To: GeronL

And he left out the reason our nation is going places in a handbasket..

“Under God”.

31 posted on 02/17/2010 9:49:21 AM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")

To: GeronL

Is everybody on here really young? If so, we can write off the inane secession talk as a form of Academic Freedom.

And when the lefties (New York, Seattle) try to secede, they will be crushed.

75 posted on 02/17/2010 10:20:46 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)

To: GeronL

Using the pledge to answer a Constitutional question should get someone impeached.

Especially in light of who actually wrote the thing!

Francis Bellamy, a utopian socialist ideologue.

92 posted on 02/17/2010 10:43:42 AM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)

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