Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one Nation.
under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
- First Amendment: Protects freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
- Second Amendment: Safeguards the right to keep and bear arms.
- Third Amendment: Prohibits the quartering (housing) of soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent.
- Fourth Amendment: Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires warrants to be issued based on probable cause.
- Fifth Amendment: Guarantees rights in criminal cases, including grand jury indictment, protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, and the right to due process.
- Sixth Amendment: Ensures the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to counsel.
- Seventh Amendment: Guarantees the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases.
- Eighth Amendment: Prohibits excessive bail and fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishments.
- Ninth Amendment: States that the enumeration of specific rights in the Constitution does not mean that other rights that are not specifically listed are not also protected.
- Tenth Amendment: Affirms that any powers that are not specifically given to the federal government, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states, or to the people.
The Star Spangled Banner – Video
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses!
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner – O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more.
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
American USA 