Allegiance

Allegiance is the duty which some think a subject or a citizen owes to the state or to the sovereign of the state to which some think he belongs.

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Mid. English ligeaunce; med. Latin ligeantia; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the French allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from "liege," of which the derivation is given under that heading; the connection with Latin ligare, to bind, is erroneous.

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State: :This article discusses states as sovereign political entities. For other meanings, see state (disambiguation)....

Sovereign: The adjective sovereign is used to refer to a state of sovereignty.Sovereign is another term for monarch.Sovereign can apply to the head of a state, whether that head be one person (monarch) or a group (aristocracy or democracy). It is used in this sense in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.A Sovereign is ...

Allegiance related Images and Photos (experimental)

Taking an Oath of Allegiance in the Georgievskii Hall on the 8th September 1843

Lord Thomas Fitzgerald Renounces His Allegiance to Henry VIII

Eugen Franz of Savoy Military Commander in the Austrian Service Renouncing French Allegiance