Their highest allegiance isn't to limited government.
Ross Douthat calls "making sure that the dollars keep flowing to their constituents back home" the "highest allegiance" of moderate Republican senators in the Northeast and considers these senators "intellectually vacuous".
Jehovah's Witnesses believe their highest allegiance belongs to God's kingdom, which is viewed as an actual government in heaven, with Christ as king.
The future of American and global well-being is dependent on raising the level of self-aware conscientious independent citizenry who ultimately consider their highest allegiance to be humanity itself.
In obedience to a severe rationality, we might, for example, demand a higher allegiance than the allegiance we feel for our favorite sports teams, but, Nussbaum warns, "To unlearn the habits of the sports fan we must unlearn our erotic investment in the world, our attachments to our own team, our own love, our own children, our own life".
The Church of England had the highest nominal allegiance, but in the eastern mainland colonies Roman Catholicism was notably strong; Methodism had vigorous advocates throughout; Congregationalism and other forms of dissent dominated in South Australia; and Presbyterianism had its chief strength in Victoria.
He wasn't much of a reader outside his field, and despite his high-minded allegiance to modernism in architecture, he couldn't get on with modernism in books or on screen.
In addition to intervention, Sea Shepherd continues to branch out and make high-profile allegiances with less aggressive groups.
Some have been switching high street allegiances, with Morrisons (Britain's fourth-largest grocer behind Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's) attracting an extra 400,000 cash-conscious shoppers a week during the first half of 2011.
"For some, the highest form of allegiance to their God is to attack, defame, and slander others who don't articulate matters of faith as they do".
Students at the Royal College of Art, led by the architects Charles Holland, David Knight and Finn Williams, have produced an impressive series of maps of the metropolitan green belt around London that show such things as the distribution of landfill sites, Travellers' sites, branches of Waitrose, crime (mostly low), income (mostly high) and political allegiance (quite conservative).
