Pledge+of+Allegiance+Discuss

=Why do we perform this ritual? what does it symbolize? why is it significant? When we say it do we mean what we are saying or are we simply reciting t? Is there anything like this in other countries?=
 * =What does the Pledge of Allegiance actually mean?=
 * ==Republic: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officials and representatives representing them whose chief of state is not a monarch, but a president.==
 * ==Nation: a territorial division containing people of one or more nationalities characterized by relatively large size and independent status==
 * ==Liberty: free from arbitrary or despotic (a ruler's) control so that a nation has the power of choice to do as its people choose.==
 * ==Justice: the quality of being just, impartial or fair==