June 14, 2007
2nd Continental Congress Passes Flag Resolution
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The Flag Act reads: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." When this resolution was adopted, there was no elaborate symbolism attached to the flag's colors. Meanings were later assigned in 1782, when Charles Thomson gave a report to Congress defining the new Great Seal of the US. What do the colors now represent?
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