 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1990 - 196 halaman
...ON JUNE 14, 1777, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS DECLARED THAT 'THE FLAG OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES BE THIRTEEN STRIPES, ALTERNATE RED AND WHITE; THAT THE...IN A BLUE FIELD, REPRESENTING A NEW CONSTELLATION.' FORTY-ONE YEARS LATER, IN 1818, CONGRESS PASSED A LAW ENSURING THAT EVERY STATE WOULD BE REPRESENTED... | |
 | John K. Roth - 1997 - 294 halaman
...the Continental Congress on June 14,1777. It specified that the flag of the United States should be "thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A century later, Congress called for public displays on June 14, 1877, to commemorate the flag's one-hundredth... | |
 | 1998 - 56 halaman
...Philadelphia on June 14, 1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the...in a blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars... | |
 | 1998 - 184 halaman
...passed the following resolution; "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thir teen stripes alternate red and -white; that the union be...blue field, representing a new constellation. " This flag received its first salute from another country on Feb. 14, 1778, when French vessels in Quiberon... | |
 | Richard M. Ketchum - 1999 - 572 halaman
...outpost with an account of how Congress, on June 14, had "resolved that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." But at the moment the chances of that constellation surviving to light up the skies looked very dim... | |
 | Lincoln P. Paine - 2000 - 292 halaman
...same date, coincidentally, Congress also resolved “that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the...blue field, representing a new constellation.”) Ranger sailed for France on November 1 and arrived at Nantes on December 2, having taken two English... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 halaman
...July of that year, the Continental Congress resolved that "the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that the...in a blue field, representing a new constellation," which is to say, a new and different kind of country. Congress later declared the "Star-Spangled Banner"... | |
 | 2001 - 56 halaman
...Philadelphia on June 14, 1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the...in a blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars... | |
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thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: That the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. 
