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The very first line “I pledge allegiance to the flag...” makes the promise that the pledger agrees to be a “liege”. A liege is a slave. Therefore pledging allegiance to anything or anybody goes against the principles of freedom.
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Huh, I had to look this up. I thought the liege was the lord, not the vassal (since I really only heard it in the context of vassals using it as an honorific - "my liege").
Apparently it's both, it's an
auto-antonym, like 'cleave'.