Joseph A. Zavaletta, JD Biography
- Title:
- Director of Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC)
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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“I do support the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance. The American founders referred to God three times in the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States.
- First, they acknowledged God as Lawgiver in the ‘laws of Nature and Nature’s God.’
- Second, they relied on God as Creator who had endowed men with the ‘inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’
- And third, the founders relied on God as the Supreme Judge of the World to judge the ‘rectitude of [their] intentions’ between the colonies and England.
The Pledge of Allegiance is a reference to God as Creator, not Redeemer, and does not establish a religion, but only an historical acknowledgement of His Providential role in the founding of America.”
Email to ProCon.org, June 29, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director for the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC) Center for Civic Engagement
- Professor of Business Law, University of Texas at Brownsville
- Former trial lawyer
- Outstanding Educator of the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business
- Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award
- Education:
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- JD, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA
- MA, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA
- BS, University of Texas at Austin
- Other:
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