While the Supreme Court did not rule on the constitutionality of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, it is naïve to assert that it is not an endorsement of religion ("8 Justices Block Effort to Excise Phrase in Pledge," front page, June 15).
And Nick M Duffy tweeted to point out the SNP manifesto has pledged (on page 19) to "promote the rights of LGBTI people throughout the word".
Click here to view the pledge sign-up page.
Al-Thawadi's Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy this week issued a 46-page pledge to improve worker welfare.
More than a year ago, the state directed the city to create a plan to improve its performance, and on Wednesday it released the city's 31-page pledge.
The pledge, two dense pages with footnotes, binds signers to try to block same-sex marriage as well as be faithful to their spouses, oppose women "in forward combat roles" and support "robust childbearing and reproduction".
Many of the grants Google makes to organizations like Citizen Schools, Landesa, Ashoka and Unicef seem more like conventional corporate philanthropy than the revolutionary social innovation that Mr. Page pledged.
(Boehner's name appears in the book only three times, though it was published in September, just a week before he announced what was supposed to be the defining manifesto of the Republican campaign, the glossy, forty-five-page Pledge to America. The Pledge laid out general conservative principles but, unlike Gingrich's Contract, avoided specific to-do lists).
Ed Miliband's policy team became embroiled in an explosive row over Labour's election manifesto when a new first page pledging a "budget responsibility lock" was inserted at the last minute without the knowledge of some key advisers or having been through the party's official approval process.
What the council was being asked to monitor was Mattel's adherence to its own "global manufacturing principles" — a two-page pledge consisting mostly of vague ethical declarations to which no one could object, like "facilities must have environmental programs in place to minimize their impact on the environment".
