>>I'm not sure I care.
>You better care if you are going to make the argument it is un-constitutional.

If being the key word. I don't really care what historical documents allow or do not allow when forming an opinion of my own.

>Also, why wasn't a const. convention convened to adopt a specific pledge that did not have the phrase "under God"?

Reconstruction ended in 1877. The two words in question were not added until 1954.

>Actually, one thought is that a bunch of folks slid this one by Eisenhower, that he really was not clued into the issue.

A president not conscious of his surroundings. Why is that not hard to believe.

>>Belief in the Almighty is a fairly concrete, and not accurate with respect to non-monotheists.
>Then they can choose to ignore. Or, begin the ground work for a const. amendment.

Or start electing better representitives.