The opinion, written by Judge Carlos T. Bea, stated that "the phrase 'one Nation under God' does not turn this patriotic exercise into a religious activity".
I've given several people books in Collins's Britain in Pictures series, published as a patriotic exercise during the second world war.
The Court concluded that reciting the pledge "is a fundamentally patriotic exercise, not a religious one".
Still, these episodes are a reminder that many teachers and principals expect students to conform when the school is engaged in a patriotic exercise.
This is an example of a key message that is consistently used, and they are telling us we don't belong here and we don't have the right to be patriotic, exercise our vote, and celebrate our culture.
"Although the words 'under God' undeniably have a religious tinge, courts that have considered the history of the pledge and the presence of those words have consistently concluded that the pledge, notwithstanding its reference to God, is a fundamentally patriotic exercise, not a religious one," the court's ruling said.
The Series "E" bond, in denominations of $25 to $1,000, made it possible for even Americans of limited means to exercise their patriotic duty.
It is a vast exercise in patriotic remembrance, in this case the incendiary massacre of 1905, when Cossack police killed peaceful demonstrators in St . Petersburg
The initiator of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica was Karl Freiherr vom Stein (d. 1831), leading early 19th-century German statesman and reformer, who, after retiring from politics in 1816, exercised his patriotic energies in stirring up interest in German history.
His first film, "In Which We Serve" (1942), whose co-director was its writer and star, Noël Coward, is a strange blend of grand-scale naval battle scenes and flashbacks to the mundane lives of the British seamen and their families, both a stirring exercise in patriotic propaganda and an anthology of cozy sentimental vignettes.
