Has anyone ever noticed that the "Pledge of Allegiance" doesn't even once mention the Constitution?
As a matter of law, the allegiance of U.S. citizens is to the Constitution. Not to the President. Not to the flag. Not to the god of a 'civic religion' invented by the Supreme Court.
TO THE CONSTITUTION.
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@DavidSalo A problematic object for allegiance: a document thrown together in haste and in secret, with obvious faults, some of which have been corrected. Among its contradictions is the makeup of the US Senate, so hostile to equal representation that the states are forbidden to construct their senates along the same lines.
The older I get, the more I see the Pledge as a form of idolatry, which I think is a grave sin.