G-11+Con

"In 2006, in the Florida case //Frazier v. Alexandre//, No. 05-81142 (S.D. Fla. May 31, 2006) "A federal district court in Florida has ruled that a 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the [|First] and [|Fourteenth Amendments] of the U.S. Constitution.[|[13]]" O'Neill, we should look at that argument a lot and use it. - Alina

"Government requiring or promoting of the Pledge has drawn criticism and legal challenges on several grounds. Prominent legal challenges have been based on the contention that state-sponsored requiring or promoting of the Pledge is unconstitutional because it violates one or both of the religion clauses in the [|First Amendment]." []


 * The First Amendment gives American citizens the rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition, and __**freedom of religion**__
 * The Fourteenth Amendment "defines a set of guarantees for United States citizenship; prohibits //states// from abridging citizens' privileges or immunities and rights to due process and the equal protection of the law; repeals the Three-fifths compromise; prohibits repudiation of the federal debt caused by the Civil War." []
 * America is a democracy, not a religious state, with no offical national religion
 * Alina, look at []