Allegiance is the tie which binds the subject to the Sovereign in return for that protection which the Sovereign affords the subject.

Allegiance is owed both to the Sovereign as a natural person and to the Sovereign in the political capacity ( Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 ( per Lord Coleridge CJ )).

* 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.

In 2007 an " Allegiance Council " was created, comprising Abdul Aziz's surviving sons plus a grandson of each his deceased sons, to determine which member of the royal family will be the heir apparent ( the Crown Prince ) after Prince Salman, who is the current Crown Prince, either dies or accedes to the throne.

* 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.

* October 12 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the " Pledge of Allegiance " is first recited in unison by students in U. S. public schools.

The Queen's commission for the governor general-designate is then read aloud by the Secretary to the Governor General and the required oaths are administered to the appointee by either the chief justice or one of the puisne justices of the Supreme Court ; the three oaths are: the Oath of Allegiance, the Oath of Office as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief, and the Oath as Keeper of the Great Seal of Canada.

By the Interpretation Act of 2005, no incumbent appointee of the Crown is affected by the death of the monarch, nor are they required to take the Oath of Allegiance again, and all references in legislation to previous monarchs, whether in the masculine ( e. g. His Majesty ) or feminine ( e. g. the Queen ), continue to mean the reigning sovereign of Canada, regardless of his or her gender.

Despite this exclusion, members of the commons must still express their loyalty to the monarch and defer to her authority, as the Oath of Allegiance must be recited by all new parliamentarians before they may take their seat, and the official opposition is traditionally dubbed as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of loyalty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942.

Mark J. Pelavin, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, objected to court stripping in regards to the Pledge of Allegiance, " Today's House adoption of the so-called " Pledge Protection Act " is a shameful effort to strip our federal courts of their ability to uphold the rights of all Americans.

* Law – A federal court in San Francisco, California, ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, because of its " under God " clause.

Hesston is served by over-the-air ATSC digital TV of the Wichita-Hutchinson viewing market area, cable TV by Allegiance Communications, and satellite TV.

Burns is served by over-the-air ATSC digital TV of the Wichita-Hutchinson viewing market area, cable TV by Allegiance Communications, and satellite TV.

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624 ( 1943 ), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.

The title is the last four words of the Pledge of Allegiance.

He is also featured on " Pledge Allegiance to the Hag " on Eric Church's debut album.

" The title is also included in the Oath of Allegiance, which forms a part of the Oath of Citizenship, and can be found as ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA CANADA Latin for Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of Canada on the obverse of various medals in the Canadian honours system.

Allegiance sworn to the monarch is as same as to the country, its constitution or flag.

The Oath of Allegiance is taken by holders of political office in Scotland before the Lord President of the Court of Session at a meeting of the court.

Allegiance to music is integrally woven into the social identity of Italians but no single style has been considered a characteristic " national style ".

The peer would take the Oath of Allegiance or the Solemn Affirmation, and would sign the Test Roll, at the top of which the same Oath is written.

The Bellamy salute is the salute described by Francis Bellamy ( 1855 – 1931 ) to accompany the American Pledge of Allegiance, which he had authored.

His youngest son Prince Faisal is the governor of Asir Province and a member of the Allegiance Council.

The Tongmenghui, also known as the Chinese United League, United League, Chinese Revolutionary Alliance, Chinese Alliance and United Allegiance Society, was a secret society and underground resistance movement formed when merging many Chinese revolutionary groups together by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 August 1905.

However John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, found that he had the authority neither to create new bishops without legislation nor to dispense with the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown which formed part of the ordination ceremony.

* James I, De Triplici Nodo, Triplex Cuneus, ( his anonymous pamphlet encouraging loyalty to the Crown, accompanied by letters from Paul V about the Catholic Church's opinion of the Oath of Allegiance, and James ' responses to them ).

Meme's Bar in Asherton recites a line from the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag.

However, the assassination by the IRA of Kevin O ' Higgins, the Vice-President of the Executive Council ( deputy prime minister ), led to the passing of a new Act requiring all prospective Dáil candidates to take an oath that, if elected, they would swear the Oath of Allegiance ; a refusal to do so would prohibit anyone from candidacy in a general or by-election.

Faced with the threat of legal disqualification from politics, de Valera eventually took the Oath of Allegiance while claiming that he was simply signing a slip of paper to gain a right of participation in the Dáil, not actually taking an Oath.

In 1935 in Lynn, Massachusetts, a third-grader and Jehovah ’ s Witness named Carleton Nichols refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and was expelled from school.

Aiken tried to remain neutral and after fighting broke out between pro-and anti-Treaty units in Dublin, he wrote to Richard Mulcahy, calling for a truce and the removal of the Oath of Allegiance ( Ireland ) from the Free State constitution.

However, the Comprehension Act of 1690 allowed Episcopalian incumbents, on taking the Oath of Allegiance, to retain their benefices, though excluding them from any share in the government of the Church of Scotland without a further declaration of presbyterian principles.

* Excerpt from Gladstone's The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: a Political Expostulation at Victorian Web

The Act of Toleration, adopted by the British Parliament in 1689, allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation The Nonconformists were Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists and Congregationalists.

Frankfurter's adherence to the judicial restraint philosophy was shown in the 1940 opinion he wrote for the court in Minersville School District v. Gobitis, a case involving Jehovah's Witnesses students who had been expelled from school due to their refusal to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

* Voted for the Pledge Protection Act in mid-July 2006, which would prevent federal courts from ruling on cases involving the Pledge of Allegiance.

20. Allegiance ( Release Date: December 25, 2009 ) It's all about teamwork, and it's time to declare your Allegiance with the sixth Virtual Expansion from The Continuing Committee.

Teams earn money in Allegiance through the use of miners, drone craft which harvest Helium-3 from special asteroids.

In 1660 a Chadlington Quaker who attended the Charlbury meetings was jailed for refusing to swear the Oath of Allegiance and in 1663 Henry Shad, a Quaker schoolmaster, was barred from teaching.

On December 4, 2007, Newdow argued before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit to remove both " under God " from the Pledge of Allegiance ( Roe v. Rio Linda Union School District ), and " In God We Trust " from United States currency.

The present form of the Oath of Allegiance, which derives from that which was, and still is, taken by parliamentarians in the United Kingdom, is:

" The oath set out in said schedule is: I,, do swear, that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, with the further instruction that " the name of the King or Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being is to be substituted from Time to Time, with Proper Terms of Reference thereto.

Early opposition to the Oath of Allegiance was expressed by the inhabitants of Quebec shortly following the transfer of that territory from King Louis XV to King George III via the 1763 Treaty of Paris.

The Members ' Manual of the National Assembly outlines that this additional oath is to the people and constitution of Quebec, distinct from the Oath of Allegiance, which is an oath to the country via the Queen, though some saw the monarch, in that context, as representative of the Quebec State and not of Canada, taking into account Canada's " divisible " Crown.

In 2005, Senator Raymond Lavigne uttered the words " and to my country, Canada ," at the end of the Oath of Allegiance, which raised questions from other senators and Lavigne was instructed to take the oath again, without the amendment.